A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
- Director
- Writer
- Richard Matheson(screenplay by)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writer
- Richard Matheson(screenplay by)
- Stars
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 7 wins & 5 nominations total
William H. Macy
- Critic (1972)
- (as W. H. Macy)
Ali Marie Matheson
- Student (1972)
- (as Ali Matheson)
George Wendt
- Student (1972)
- (scenes deleted)
Pat Billingsley
- Professor (1972)
- (as Patrick Billingsley)
- Director
- Writer
- Richard Matheson(screenplay by) (based on his novel "Bid Time Return")
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhile Christopher Reeve was filming this movie, the local theater decided to show his latest hit Superman (1978). Many of the "Somewhere" cast joined the locals for the event. Early into the screening, the sound went out. Reeve, who was seated next to Jane Seymour, stood up in the audience and delivered all the lines.
- GoofsRecurring throughout the movie and specifically referred to in the lovers' conversation is the lyric melody from Rachmaninov "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini". This work did not exist in 1912. It was composed and premiered in 1934. This is done by design. When Richard is taking Elise for a boat ride, he is humming it. She says that she is familiar with Rachmaninov but not this piece. That makes sense. She wouldn't know it if it was composed later, but Richard would know it because he was born after it was composed. That's why he tells her that he'll introduce it to her sometime. He knows he'll have to wait until it is composed.
- Quotes
Elise McKenna: The man of my dreams has almost faded now. The one I have created in my mind. The sort of man each woman dreams of, in the deepest and most secret reaches of her heart. I can almost see him now before me. What would I say to him if he were really here? "Forgive me. I have never known this feeling. I have lived without it all my life. Is it any wonder, then, I failed to recognise you? You, who brought it to me for the first time. Is there any way that I can tell you how my life has changed? Any way at all to let you know what sweetness you have given me? There is so much to say. I cannot find the words. Except for these: I love you". Such would I say to him if he were really here.
- Alternate versionsVideo version has some parts of the soundtrack changed, due to copyright problems: the original theme from "Somewhere in Time", performed by pianist Roger Williams over the ending titles, is replaced by other music in the videocassette and DVD versions. It's intact in the laserdisc release.
- SoundtracksRhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43, Variation XVIII Andante Cantabile
Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Conducted by John Barry
Piano solo by Chet Swiatkowsky (uncredited)
Courtesy Belwin Mills Publishing Corp.
Review
Top review
Soulmates...Somewhere in Time
For us hopeless romantics, this kind of love story gives us the feeling that our own soulmate might have lived in another time instead of our own. It is a pleasant little fantasy to get lost in for a couple of hours anyway. For someone who analyzes the small details in movies like myself, the story has many hidden twists and turns to figure out. For example, when you consider that Elise Mckenna was 85 years old when she died in 1972, why was Richard Collier a young man in college? Was he the reincarnation of the Richard she had loved 60 years earlier in 1912? Did Richard's time-traveling professor have some connection to Elise? Why did Elise's manager warn Elise of Richard's coming? If you get too concerned with these details then you miss the overall message of the film...true love never dies and true love is worth dying for.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Bid Time Return
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,100,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,709,597
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,203,011
- Oct 5, 1980
- Gross worldwide
- $9,709,597
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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