I saw The Grand Hotel in person today for the first time. Years ago, I never thought I'd get the chance, but here it is, within my reach. This film inspired a dream in me that has lived on and kept me believing in something beautiful.
I remember after eating their beautiful lunch buffet falling asleep on their wooden chairs on their porch overlooking the water so peaceful and thinking about this movie
He died 17 years ago yesterday. He was a very good actor and I am so glad he got to make this most romantic film. You were good Mr. Reeve! Damn Good!!!!
The pain in her face is palpable when she speaks. An amazing performance by Susan French. Also, her voice sounds EXACTLY like Jane Seymour’s. Brilliant casting.
@@jacktorrance9688 same rich melodic whisper, same accent, etc. Maybe ‘exactly’ is an exaggeration, but my point is, it’s believable that this is the same person as the young woman we meet later on.
She knew when he disappeared, he wasn't from her time. They were so in love. Can you imagine when the 1970s rolled around and she probably sees in the newspaper of this playwrite in college and she knows it's him. Sweet rhing
I'm guessing that penny he saw in the palm of his hand fell to the floor. Which is how she knew he traveled through time from the future to see her. Which makes the story all the more powerful. They met in 1912. the beginning of the film when she's old is probably 1971 (8 years before the coin if it was new). Which means 59 years she waited. Ellise was in her early 20's when they met. Add 59 years to that and you get somewhere north of 80 years old when we see her in the beginning of the film.
I don't think Elise saw the penny. Besides, how can a 1979 penny exist in 1912? Or Collier, for that matter anyway... Remember how she was saying that his suit was at least 15 years out-of-style for the time period, not to mention the fact that he wore the same suit for 3 days and probably smelled like horseshit and BO being knocked out in a horse's stable by William Fawcett Robinson's thugs, he also hummed a Rachmaninoff piece that didn't come out until 22 years later and the fact that he turned into a ghostly apparition and went into the wall was a give away that something was weird. She was probably confused and scared out of her mind she probably thought he was a space alien or a ghost when he disappeared! I'm surprised Elise didn't end up in a sanitarium!
if you have never seen this movie, you should. it is excellent & so beautifully done & so very clean & should have won the Academy award for best picture, actor & actress & musical score, everything about it is superb
Ms. French's only line in the entire film but, my God, did she ever deliver it with conviction, sincerity and, above all, heart. Once you see the entire film, you realize just how loaded those four simple words are for Elise. Terrific film, certainly one of the best romances I've ever seen.
This was my mothers favorite movie. Thinking of her now and it has me down. She passed a few years ago and I know this is a movie but I hope to be with her again.
Such a beautiful film, another movie where the score feels like another character and helps to shape every frame. I’ve said it before many times, John Barry is a genius composer.
one of The most outstanding film that universal studios frowned upon on it's release, after it's initial release wasnt a big hit, thanks to VHS today this film has it's own followers and became a cult classic and loved by all over the world
I saw this movie as a " NBC Sunday Night Movie" in the 80's. It is one of my ALL-TIME favorite movies!!!!! I Love movies like this now because of this MASTERPIECE!!!! Bravo👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I’ve watched this movie so many times. I don’t no if it’s the dream of time travel or just loving some one so much but it’s great every time I watch it. It’s great I hope y’all enjoy it.
Here’s my take on Richard‘s ability to time travel. It has to do with the watch itself. I believe it to be a sort of magical time piece. If you think about it, what is its origin? The watch was given to Richard from Elise in 1972, the night she died. Eight years later, he goes back into time with the same watch, which was in Elise‘s possession when Richard got pulled back to the present because of the penny. When Richard was pulled back to 1980, the same year he went back to 1912, the loop was now closed, and Richard had no way to return, as the watch was now back in 1912. I believe the story is such that two soulmates, separated by decades of time were destined to be together on earth if even for a short time. That was the watches’ purpose. Once that purpose was fulfilled, the destiny was complete and the loop was closed.
@@Innovator1973 Actually, I read the book recently. Yes, the watch did exist in the book. But it was not caught in a loop. Elise bought it for Richard at a jewelry store back in 1912.
I saw an interview with Richard Matheson where he said that scenes were added to the movie that did not exist in the book, such as Elise meeting him again as an old woman, and returning the watch to him. That’s what created the paradox, which did not exist in the book. However, it is easy to believe that the people who added that scene had the same idea as yours, that the watch had magical powers that enabled the time travel.
Best love movie of all times!!! It has everything, great director and scripts, wonderful cast, wonderful photography, wonderful settings, and way way too wonderful soundtracks. It never gets old, brilliant movie really ♥ cheers from Argentina!
Also an Original Star Trek series connection here as writer Richard Matheson was involved in this movie, had a camio role in it to. Richard Matheson wrote the Star Trek episode, The Enemy Within, first season.
Then I don't think you are who you think you are. Just let a little love into your heart and watch it blossom and grow. Just remember what was said long ago. "Faith, hope and love will last forever- and the greatest of these is love.
Finally Ellise found off what she missed. Her longing for 68 years, eventualky has been paying off and than she get rest, deep rest.... I think this scene was very memorible and most attracted than others, we could see how impressive after we put our eyes on it
Incredible movie. One of my grandparents' favourites. So sad it's overlooked. Mainly because of Christopher Reeves' success(and rightly so) of Superman.
Fun fact : Christopher went to live a short life and end on 28 just like his male character in the movie and elise mckenna who was played by Jane Seymour went on to live a long life just like the actress
If you google 'Ruby's Choice,' a recent movie with Jayne Seymour, you will see Jayne with grey hair and no make up. Susan French, the actress seen here playing older Elise in Somewhere in Time, looks astonishingly like the real older Jayne Seymour with grey hair and no make up. I mean, the resemblance is actually uncanny. The casting of Susan French was genius.
Fun fact: According to the Blu-ray bonus features, Jane Seymour tells a story about Christopher Reeve's airplane, which was parked on the island. Late at night, Seymour and Reeve would discreetly leave and go for plane trips. Seymour states that they flew to Toronto in Canada several times.
Dont forget appearances by George Wendt before " Cheers", William Macy before ER, at the party in 1972 and future SNL alumni Tim Kazurinsky as the photographer who took "the photograph" of Elise McKenna in 1912.
So weird that when I woke up this morning this was the first thing on my mind was this movie😳 I've always loved this movie and think that it is, without a doubt...the best love story movie. Now, I am on a mission to find out where I can watch it.
I just finished watching the movie about 3 hours ago. Very warm movie. "Best love story movie"? No. I watched "A lot" of love movies because I'm an introvert and unemployed for years now and when i was working, it was a rempte job sp i watched hundreds of love movies. This def not even top 50 and i "love" this movie. It touched me
@@Innovator1973 Hey again. Honestly, i think i kind of spoke out of place. I haven't watched a lot of love movies to be able to say which are my Top 5 movies. I haven't watched a great deal of love films from 60, 70, 80, 90s etc and from other countries (because foreign films are remarkable as well) to be able to honestly answer your question so i apologize. But "somewhere in time" definitely touched my heart. Only thing i can honestly answer is what are my Top 5 movies because working at home, being an introvert and only watching movies for decades including films from (china, germany, iran, Australia, Sweden, africa, norway etc) i can definitely say what are my top 5 movies so far. But our tastes and reasoning are probably different
Most fans of this film treat it as a love story with an unusual setting. It is nothing of the sort. It is a gothic horror film. The horror comes not from some supernatural creature but rather from a cruelly malicious or indifferent power in the universe that allowed two beautiful souls to come together and find love across an ocean of time only to yank them apart suddenly and without warning. The scenes of Richard Collier trying desperately to return to 1912 and failing, and his literal wasting away in slow death were terrifying. The opening scene where the elderly Elise gives him the pocket watch and whispers "Come back to me" was incredibly haunting. This film was never meant to be a love story. It is based on the novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, one of the greatest science fiction and horror writers of all time. The director, Jeannot Swarcz, was a veteran director of numerous episodes of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone and Night Gallery series.
I agree with your take. The movie should have ended with Richard Collier dying in his death bed but the test audiences were so disturbed by that nihilist fact of losing his soulmate by a so terribly cruel fashion and dying that they had to add the scene of them being reunited in heaven.
I think the movie was intended to be kind of creepy that way, but the element of love was there too. But it is also an example of how love is blind. For example, falling in love with someone who lived in a different time period from yourself is not exactly logical, and is bound to not end well. But the novel had more of the gothic horror flavor to it. The film added the happy ending of Richard and Elise being reunited in Heaven, which negated the horror aspect somewhat.
I cannot read the movie as some silly romance plot. I see this movie as a man's journey to meet his own soul and, by doing so, enter into heaven. The watch he receives from her - which is a paradox, since the watch was ontologically never made - represents eternity within our world. When he is with her, he is in heaven, but only in part. We can only meet God when we die.Therefore, when he looks at a coin (a symbol for the transient world, since it represents money, a material thing) near the end of the movie, he comes back to the physical world. While we are in this realm, we can only have glimpses of what the next world will be. Collier experimented this and he was so happy he could not bear any second longer without this happiness, so he dies longing for this greater good, which is symbolyzed by Elise, as she is beautiful like, literally, an angel. Great movie.
also Jane and Christopher fell madly in love during filming and stayed very close friends for the rest of their lives. Susan French (played old Elise) died in 2003. Half of her ash was buried near the "is it you place" at Mackinaw Island where Elise and Richard (Jane and Christopher) first met. J and C both named this movie as their favourite and the other as their favourite actor to be with in a movie.
Fun fact: Christopher Reeve and I share the same birthday, same year and within a half hour of each other! My friends introduced this movie to me because they thought I resembled Jane Seymour! It became my favorite movie of all time!
Yeah, it was low budget. Yeah, some of the costumes look off-the-shelf. Yeah, some of the acting is less-than-stellar. Yeah, it was filmed at a resort off season. I still loved this movie.
Did you know that Richard or Christopher Reveevs and Jane Seymore really did have a trist and relationship during this film; but he wanted to hold off announcing it because of his kids from a previous marriage; they really did fall in love on the set.
Neither of these is quite accurate. The kids weren’t born when the movie was filmed, and Dana was his only wife. His ex-girlfriend Gae Exton got pregnant with their first child Matthew before he hooked up with Jane. He broke it off with Jane and went back to Gae when he learned he was going to be a father. Matthew and Alexandra were born and he broke up with Gae again. Then he met Dana and she got pregnant. They were married just before Will was born. Everyone knows the rest of the story.
One of the greatest films ever made. Incredibly overlooked. Reeve and Seymour are phenomenal together.
I agree. The best romance I’ve ever seen.
Joyce Penelope Frankenberg is Jane Seymour's real name.
@@danbasta3677 Frankfurt Espéciale t'wuz her namë ?
@@naturesfinest4871 No, sorry, Frankenberg is her real name. I looked it up.
Mackinaw Island
I saw The Grand Hotel in person today for the first time. Years ago, I never thought I'd get the chance, but here it is, within my reach. This film inspired a dream in me that has lived on and kept me believing in something beautiful.
I remember after eating their beautiful lunch buffet falling asleep on their wooden chairs on their porch overlooking the water so peaceful and thinking about this movie
That’s awesome!
Fun fact: Susan French, the actress who plays the older Elise here, was born in 1912, the same year Elise and Richard met.
The Titanic made her maiden voyage in 1912 too.
Wow
The director know what he was doing.
Di cosa parla questo film vorrei conoscere questa storia in ITALIANO
Ovunque nel tempo
Susan French….you delivered this line exquisitely. Rest in Peace
He died 17 years ago yesterday. He was a very good actor and I am so glad he got to make this most romantic film. You were good Mr. Reeve! Damn Good!!!!
Absolutely 💯 ❤️ 🙏🙏🙏😞 Rest Peacefully Sir
He’s a legend.
My goodness. The music brings back so many emotional memories from this movie.
I’ll never get tired of watching this beautiful and amazing movie. I’m going to watch this again.
The pain in her face is palpable when she speaks. An amazing performance by Susan French. Also, her voice sounds EXACTLY like Jane Seymour’s. Brilliant casting.
"Also, her voice sounds EXACTLY like Jane Seymour’s"
no it doesn't?
@@jacktorrance9688 same rich melodic whisper, same accent, etc. Maybe ‘exactly’ is an exaggeration, but my point is, it’s believable that this is the same person as the young woman we meet later on.
One of my favorite movies of all time! Sometimes if i'm feeling the blues, I'll watch this just so I can cry and get it out!!
I do the same thing...
@@alisonfalconeres this is such a lovely movie. What if she never visited him in the future 🤔 time paradox
My mother's favorite movie. Before I die, I want to go to Mackinac Island. That will be a hard trip.
Same.
If I'm feeling the blues, this movie just give me even more of it
idk whats more sad, Elise waiting,searching all her life when he disappeared or him losing her, died of grief and brokenhearted
She knew when he disappeared, he wasn't from her time. They were so in love. Can you imagine when the 1970s rolled around and she probably sees in the newspaper of this playwrite in college and she knows it's him. Sweet rhing
@@julieblount5674 yup poor thing..imagine dying happy at last she saw him 1 last time
I'm guessing that penny he saw in the palm of his hand fell to the floor. Which is how she knew he traveled through time from the future to see her. Which makes the story all the more powerful. They met in 1912. the beginning of the film when she's old is probably 1971 (8 years before the coin if it was new). Which means 59 years she waited. Ellise was in her early 20's when they met. Add 59 years to that and you get somewhere north of 80 years old when we see her in the beginning of the film.
So beautifully Victorian how she froze her fashion in 1912 and dressed in black, much like Queen Victoria.
I don't think Elise saw the penny. Besides, how can a 1979 penny exist in 1912? Or Collier, for that matter anyway... Remember how she was saying that his suit was at least 15 years out-of-style for the time period, not to mention the fact that he wore the same suit for 3 days and probably smelled like horseshit and BO being knocked out in a horse's stable by William Fawcett Robinson's thugs, he also hummed a Rachmaninoff piece that didn't come out until 22 years later and the fact that he turned into a ghostly apparition and went into the wall was a give away that something was weird. She was probably confused and scared out of her mind she probably thought he was a space alien or a ghost when he disappeared! I'm surprised Elise didn't end up in a sanitarium!
if you have never seen this movie, you should. it is excellent & so beautifully done & so very clean & should have won the Academy award for best picture, actor & actress & musical score, everything about it is superb
Absolutely agree 💯👏👏👏❤️🤙
Tears in my throat by the 55 second mark. I love this movie so much.
The opening credits make you cry?
So tragic how he got hurt and we lost him too soon...Christopher Reeve. He is such a stunning, handsome Man!
The old Elise touched my heart with her acts.... her eyes with sadness made me wanted to cry...
Yeah same. Her acts were so graceful that it really touched me as well
Ms. French's only line in the entire film but, my God, did she ever deliver it with conviction, sincerity and, above all, heart. Once you see the entire film, you realize just how loaded those four simple words are for Elise. Terrific film, certainly one of the best romances I've ever seen.
The look in his eyes when she was looking at him. Awe❤️
This was my mothers favorite movie. Thinking of her now and it has me down. She passed a few years ago and I know this is a movie but I hope to be with her again.
My mom also loved this movie and she passed away a few years ago.
This was a really beautiful movie
Such a beautiful film, another movie where the score feels like another character and helps to shape every frame. I’ve said it before many times, John Barry is a genius composer.
Watched the film for the first the other day, sobbed…. Then pulled this scene up again… sobbbed even more 😭😭😭😭
The moment when Richard Colier met Elise McKenna...my all time favorite movie.
one of The most outstanding film that universal studios frowned upon on it's release, after it's initial release wasnt a big hit, thanks to VHS today this film has it's own followers and became a cult classic and loved by all over the world
a truly perfect movie.
I saw this movie as a " NBC Sunday Night Movie" in the 80's. It is one of my ALL-TIME favorite movies!!!!! I Love movies like this now because of this MASTERPIECE!!!! Bravo👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
If you've seen this movie this is the part you go back and watch and bawl your brains out.
I’ve watched this movie so many times. I don’t no if it’s the dream of time travel or just loving some one so much but it’s great every time I watch it. It’s great I hope y’all enjoy it.
Even as a child I dreamed of having a love like that. And I did. 27 beautiful years. Goodbye, honey.
This movie is brutal as it wreaks havoc on the heart
I'm on Macanaw Island right now and really enjoying going to the areas of filming. I love this movie.
Here’s my take on Richard‘s ability to time travel. It has to do with the watch itself. I believe it to be a sort of magical time piece. If you think about it, what is its origin? The watch was given to Richard from Elise in 1972, the night she died. Eight years later, he goes back into time with the same watch, which was in Elise‘s possession when Richard got pulled back to the present because of the penny. When Richard was pulled back to 1980, the same year he went back to 1912, the loop was now closed, and Richard had no way to return, as the watch was now back in 1912. I believe the story is such that two soulmates, separated by decades of time were destined to be together on earth if even for a short time. That was the watches’ purpose. Once that purpose was fulfilled, the destiny was complete and the loop was closed.
Ok. Great. Strange as it may sound, i just finished watching the film about 3 hours ago. Great movie.
The watch wasn't in the book. And it's a paradox because we don't know it's origin. It's stuck in a time loop.
Kinda like Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor!
@@Innovator1973 Actually, I read the book recently. Yes, the watch did exist in the book. But it was not caught in a loop. Elise bought it for Richard at a jewelry store back in 1912.
I saw an interview with Richard Matheson where he said that scenes were added to the movie that did not exist in the book, such as Elise meeting him again as an old woman, and returning the watch to him. That’s what created the paradox, which did not exist in the book. However, it is easy to believe that the people who added that scene had the same idea as yours, that the watch had magical powers that enabled the time travel.
I will always love this movie. Crying now as always. 😭
Best love movie of all times!!! It has everything, great director and scripts, wonderful cast, wonderful photography, wonderful settings, and way way too wonderful soundtracks. It never gets old, brilliant movie really ♥ cheers from Argentina!
I know this I think would be my favorite of all time.
Also an Original Star Trek series connection here as writer Richard Matheson was involved in this movie, had a camio role in it to. Richard Matheson wrote the Star Trek episode, The Enemy Within, first season.
A 1979 Jane Seymour was the most beautiful woman on the planet.
"Best movie of all time" I can't argue with you on that point except to ask you where you would rank Wuthering Heights?
@@danbasta3677Richard Matheson as the "Astonished Man"
One of the best movies I ever watched… divine
No matter how long ago the true love of soulmates will never perish. It will live on for eternity. Somewhere in time.
Love that song. When ever I think of that song I think of Somewhere in Time!
I have always loved this movie. I can still hear her.... "Richard !!!!!!!"
Meeeee toooooooo. Omg. That scream breaks my heart. I know just what you mean.
The current Star Wars films tried to copy it with Fynn yelling "Rey!!" 34 times. It was horrible
We only see her disappearing from his view. Can you imagine what she saw?!
I’m a hardened, pessimistic, hateful soul overflowing with toxic masculinity but I enjoy this movie immensely 40+ years later.
Then I don't think you are who you think you are. Just let a little love into your heart and watch it blossom and grow. Just remember what was said long ago. "Faith, hope and love will last forever- and the greatest of these is love.
Lol great description
@@donwilcox728 he’s joking.
😆🤷🏽♀️🧐
Bro. It takes a real man to admit those things.
Jesus Christ died for you on the cross 2000 year's ago and he loves you man.
I do too.
Finally Ellise found off what she missed. Her longing for 68 years, eventualky has been paying off and than she get rest, deep rest....
I think this scene was very memorible and most attracted than others, we could see how impressive after we put our eyes on it
Incredible movie. One of my grandparents' favourites. So sad it's overlooked. Mainly because of Christopher Reeves' success(and rightly so) of Superman.
rewatched the movie today. still one of the best time travel movie. i also like ‘about time’
I like how she sees him again almost 60 years after the first time. 1912 to 1972.
What an awesome movie and concept for a movie. Well done
just finished watching this movie….. my heart is destroyed and my soul is crushed
The music and the movie, absolutely beautiful!
Hey 👋
The Best 💯❤️👏👏👏🤙
What is love? We know that we could never have enough words to describe it. That's what love is? The undescribable feeling of all that is good.
If you know you know. Many think they know but they don't. That's why after 8 years, they get divorcr
Best movie for ever
First off, no cars are allowed on that island. Been to that hotel, beautiful. Epic movie.
Then I shall drive my minivan!
What do you think when the man you love slowly vanishes before your eyes. Then to live the rest of your life with heartbreak
This movie has always haunted me.❤️
Same
I cry every time I think of Christopher Reeves and his broken heart .
I'm there now after my Son passed last year..
A broke heart is so tragic..
A 1979 Jane Seymour was the most beautiful woman on the planet.
Fun fact : Christopher went to live a short life and end on 28 just like his male character in the movie and elise mckenna who was played by Jane Seymour went on to live a long life just like the actress
It's a fact but not so much fun for chris
Susan French gave a beautiful, nuanced performance here
I love this movie so.
I so much want to visit this hotel. It's so beautiful. Beautiful actors and beautiful movie. My heart breaks for this woman.
Just go to Pure Michigan they will give you all the information you need I have been there twice I love that place
That hotel is beautiful and haunted
I have stayed at a Motel 6 in several different cities.
Brilliant movie 🎥 good looking talented actor late Christopher Reeve.Jane Seymour outstanding acting 🏆
Absolutely love this movie.
If you google 'Ruby's Choice,' a recent movie with Jayne Seymour, you will see Jayne with grey hair and no make up. Susan French, the actress seen here playing older Elise in Somewhere in Time, looks astonishingly like the real older Jayne Seymour with grey hair and no make up. I mean, the resemblance is actually uncanny. The casting of Susan French was genius.
Fun fact: According to the Blu-ray bonus features, Jane Seymour tells a story about Christopher Reeve's airplane, which was parked on the island. Late at night, Seymour and Reeve would discreetly leave and go for plane trips. Seymour states that they flew to Toronto in Canada several times.
I always choked up with "SIT"
Dont forget appearances by George Wendt before " Cheers", William Macy before ER, at the party in 1972 and future SNL alumni Tim Kazurinsky as the photographer who took "the photograph" of Elise McKenna in 1912.
I just bought the DVD today for $5! I'll be wearing it out. I wish I could find a way to post it. 😊
Unforgettable film, so beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
caught this near the time of its release. its a brilliant movie, so sad. I thought the ending was a bit of a cop out but i love it still.
Christopher ...❤️
So weird that when I woke up this morning this was the first thing on my mind was this movie😳 I've always loved this movie and think that it is, without a doubt...the best love story movie. Now, I am on a mission to find out where I can watch it.
I just finished watching the movie about 3 hours ago. Very warm movie. "Best love story movie"? No. I watched "A lot" of love movies because I'm an introvert and unemployed for years now and when i was working, it was a rempte job sp i watched hundreds of love movies. This def not even top 50 and i "love" this movie. It touched me
@@macabree5856 I'm curious now. What's your top 5 romantic movies. We all have different tastes 😀
@@Innovator1973 Hey again. Honestly, i think i kind of spoke out of place. I haven't watched a lot of love movies to be able to say which are my Top 5 movies. I haven't watched a great deal of love films from 60, 70, 80, 90s etc and from other countries (because foreign films are remarkable as well) to be able to honestly answer your question so i apologize. But "somewhere in time" definitely touched my heart. Only thing i can honestly answer is what are my Top 5 movies because working at home, being an introvert and only watching movies for decades including films from (china, germany, iran, Australia, Sweden, africa, norway etc) i can definitely say what are my top 5 movies so far. But our tastes and reasoning are probably different
Most fans of this film treat it as a love story with an unusual setting. It is nothing of the sort. It is a gothic horror film. The horror comes not from some supernatural creature but rather from a cruelly malicious or indifferent power in the universe that allowed two beautiful souls to come together and find love across an ocean of time only to yank them apart suddenly and without warning. The scenes of Richard Collier trying desperately to return to 1912 and failing, and his literal wasting away in slow death were terrifying. The opening scene where the elderly Elise gives him the pocket watch and whispers "Come back to me" was incredibly haunting.
This film was never meant to be a love story. It is based on the novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, one of the greatest science fiction and horror writers of all time. The director, Jeannot Swarcz, was a veteran director of numerous episodes of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone and Night Gallery series.
Very interesting take
I agree with your take. The movie should have ended with Richard Collier dying in his death bed but the test audiences were so disturbed by that nihilist fact of losing his soulmate by a so terribly cruel fashion and dying that they had to add the scene of them being reunited in heaven.
I think the movie was intended to be kind of creepy that way, but the element of love was there too. But it is also an example of how love is blind. For example, falling in love with someone who lived in a different time period from yourself is not exactly logical, and is bound to not end well. But the novel had more of the gothic horror flavor to it. The film added the happy ending of Richard and Elise being reunited in Heaven, which negated the horror aspect somewhat.
I cannot read the movie as some silly romance plot. I see this movie as a man's journey to meet his own soul and, by doing so, enter into heaven. The watch he receives from her - which is a paradox, since the watch was ontologically never made - represents eternity within our world. When he is with her, he is in heaven, but only in part. We can only meet God when we die.Therefore, when he looks at a coin (a symbol for the transient world, since it represents money, a material thing) near the end of the movie, he comes back to the physical world. While we are in this realm, we can only have glimpses of what the next world will be. Collier experimented this and he was so happy he could not bear any second longer without this happiness, so he dies longing for this greater good, which is symbolyzed by Elise, as she is beautiful like, literally, an angel.
Great movie.
He messed up by leaving modern coins in his pocket instead of coins from the period of time he wished to be in. The professor warned him against this.
@@naturesfinest4871 i think he brought that just in case he failed on his mission. He can came back to the present time.
also Jane and Christopher fell madly in love during filming and stayed very close friends for the rest of their lives. Susan French (played old Elise) died in 2003. Half of her ash was buried near the "is it you place" at Mackinaw Island where Elise and Richard (Jane and Christopher) first met. J and C both named this movie as their favourite and the other as their favourite actor to be with in a movie.
@@elchichosantana6410 he was a time stalker
@@elchichosantana6410 No, it was accidental.
I'm not crying i swear!!!!😢
This is my favorite scene in the movie
Truly...a 💎...it's odd how I found this film... like total kismet...I know where this storyline originated...nice
Ahh Love has no boundaries.
I love this movie story and cast of people.
Fun fact: Christopher Reeve and I share the same birthday, same year and within a half hour of each other! My friends introduced this movie to me because they thought I resembled Jane Seymour! It became my favorite movie of all time!
One of my favourite movies ❤
I always cry at one point though the film.
The music is so beautiful
I feel so much at peace, when l hear it.
Phenomenal film.
As a joke Susan French said, " Have it fixed, dear "
Just sad movie was removed so soon. Still say it was the Greatest.........
The shock was probably too intense, but maaaybe she could have warned him about the coin, just in case.
Come back to me you're like 70 years late!
My favourite love story of all . X
He got the watch from her in the present, but she got it from him in the past.
So the watch never came from anywhere, or anywhen.
Destroy the watch… destroy the loop
인생영화네 몸은 늙었어도 사랑은 그대로더라
Yeah, it was low budget. Yeah, some of the costumes look off-the-shelf. Yeah, some of the acting is less-than-stellar. Yeah, it was filmed at a resort off season. I still loved this movie.
Alot of great acting too though
The way he travels back in time is BS because of the low budget. but it's ok if you suspend your disbelief and go with it.
Such a lovely story. 🤗❤️
Gracias por subirlo 👏👏🤗🇦🇷 saludos desde Argentina
Did you know that Richard or Christopher Reveevs and Jane Seymore really did have a trist and relationship during this film; but he wanted to hold off announcing it because of his kids from a previous marriage; they really did fall in love on the set.
Well, Christopher Revees Met and Fell in Love with Dana. They married and had a couple of children. They were a Devoted Couple.
Neither of these is quite accurate. The kids weren’t born when the movie was filmed, and Dana was his only wife. His ex-girlfriend Gae Exton got pregnant with their first child Matthew before he hooked up with Jane. He broke it off with Jane and went back to Gae when he learned he was going to be a father. Matthew and Alexandra were born and he broke up with Gae again. Then he met Dana and she got pregnant. They were married just before Will was born. Everyone knows the rest of the story.
I'm not crying you're crying 😢
This accurately describes how I feel when I see my crush after a long absence.
I have always loved this film...
Im inlove with this movie specially I like christopher reeves
Is that Superman?
Christopher reeve yes . He was actually making this and the first superman at the same time . Much missed
@@Kpink744 thank you. I couldn't remember his name😅
@@lalaland2107 he was one fine actor a good man and his best mate was Robin Williams 🙌🏼
@@lalaland2107 Yes, Christopher and Robin Williams were roommates when they first started out to be actors!!! Loved both🥰🥰🥰
they are doomed in time to find and lose love .
She could have asked: “Do you remember me?”
At this point, he has not traveled to the past yet.
@@ncdxero88 guess they were both time stalkers...lol
“Come back to me” sounds more romantic than “Do you remember me?”
She knew he would have no recollection. Makes me believe it was a past life for him and not her.
She could've said, "Come back to me... *and empty your pockets first this time."*
Back when men knew which bathroom to use...classic : )
Powerful just powerful.
Now there is another rip off based on this film called A Timeless Christmas on Hallmark.
Какой прекрасный фильм!!! Как прекрасен С. РАХМАНИНОВ!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Love this show!!!!!
Susan French here is 71, the same age Jane Seymour is now.
Come back to me then he turn into superman spins earth around to 1912 😂😂😂