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Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is a young writer and this night will prove to be very special for him. In addition to this being opening night for his first play, he will also meet someone who will change his life forever. This person is a very old woman, who hands him an antique watch and bids him to return with her somewhere. He is confused, but he simply cannot stop thinking about the incident and …

…performances in the Superman movies, and I was interested to see how he would do without the blue tights. Both he and Seymour put in great performances though, and make this often-strange movie work. I have to say that I enjoyed Somewhere in Time: it is a good romantic movie, and one that I will certainly revisit in the future, though it requires some disbelief on the part of the audience about the time-traveling aspects.