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Bookmark this pageTime After Time (1979)
Director: Nicholas Meyer
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From Time Out Film Guide
An idealistic HG Wells (McDowell) chases the villainous Jack the Ripper (Warner) when he escapes into the 20th century - specifically, San Francisco in 1979 - by courtesy of the Time Machine. Once there, they respectively try to protect and destroy a cutesy women's libber (Steenburgen), discovering en route that violence is more at home in our times than gentleness. It's a bookish joke which comes unstuck: after nearly two hours the tension has evaporated, and all that's left is a curdle of jokes and brutality.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Producer: Herb Jaffe
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Kent Williams, Patti D'Arbanville full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 112 mins
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