Somewhere in Time is a 1980 romantic science fiction film directed by Jeannot Szwarc. It is a film adaptation of the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, and Bill Erwin. Reeve plays Richard Collier, a playwright who becomes smitten by a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel. Through self-hypnosis, he travels back in time to the year 1912 to find love with actress Elise McKenna . But her manager William Fawcett Robinson fears that romance will derail her... career and resolves to stop him. The film is known for its musical score composed by John Barry. The eighteenth variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini also runs throughout the film. In May 1972, college theater student Richard Collier is celebrating the debut of a play he has written. During the celebration, he is approached by an elderly woman who places a pocket watch in his hand and pleads "come back to me". Richard does not recognize the woman, who returns to her own residence afterward.
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| Release date: | October 3, 1980 |
| Directed by: | Jeannot Szwarc |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ray Stark |
| Editor: | Jeff Gourson |
| Music by: | John Barry |
| Screenplay by: | Richard Matheson |
| Estimated budget: | $5,100,000 |
| Adapted from: | Somewhere in Time |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Fantasy |