Time After Time

1979
AA
1h 52m

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7.0/10

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Steampunk Time Travel Adventure Drama Sci-Fi Thriller

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

21K

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Awards
- 7 wins & 7 nominations total

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Trivia
All four of the real H.G. Wells' children were still alive at the time of this film's release.

Goofs
California had a 15 working day waiting period for firearms purchases starting in 1975, so Wells couldn't have just walked away with the gun he'd purchased.

Quotes
H.G. Wells: Every age is the same. It's only love that makes any of them bearable.

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Edited into The Green Fog (2017)

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Featured review

7/10

Timely and Credible

Looking like a nerdy Richard Thomas, Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells in this highly imaginative sci-fi thriller, that has Wells fast forwarded from 1893 to 1979, in a quest to find Jack the Ripper. The film's screenplay, direction, cinematography, editing, and costumes are all top notch. And Mary Steenburgen gives a fine performance in a support role.

"Time After Time" has an ever so slight comic book, tongue in cheek, feel to the plot, suggestive of Batman and Robin. Yet, right behind this entertaining, if somewhat superficial, facade is a serious message that is both timely and credible: no matter how much society advances in its technology, our world will always have two things ... violence and love.