- After traveling back in time to save Lois Lane in 1978's Superman, Christopher Reeve tries the same trick again in Jeannot Szwarc's Somewhere in Time. This time around, he's saving Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour), who finds herself threatened by loneliness instead of an earthquake. If there's a Lex Luthor standin, it's her overprotective manager (Christopher Plummer), who wants to make sure that nothing derails Elise's promising acting career. I suppose the hotel porter (Bill Erwin) is the Jimmy Olsen character, particularly in the past when he's played by a young boy (Sean Hayden).
- So, is there more to Somewhere in Time than an old woman (Susan French) asking a handsome young playwright to go back in time and have sex with her? Well, the costume and set designs are very impressive, and the film does an excellent job setting the tone for an excursion to the early 1900s. The acting is also good - honestly, I have never seen Reeve, Seymour, or Plummer deliver a bad performance. The film's shocking resolution could have been pulled from The Twilight Zone, but that's only because Richard Matheson was the screenwriter and author of the source novel. Despite all of these positive qualities (and a relatively restrained score from John Barry), the film's sluggish pacing renders it much more of a bore than it should have been. Almost certainly director Jeannot Szwarc's best film, not that it would take much to top Code Name: Diamond Head.
- Also featuring an old Teresa Wright and a young William H. Macy.
