Fun fact: While 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.
That was somewhat common for Victorian and Edwardian women--to stay in mourning for their only love. Queen Victoria did just that for four decades after Prince Albert died. She always dressed in black until her own death in 1901.
Nope. In heaven no one is married. Nor is there any sex. That was just a short hallucination. In reality he’s just buried underground as a rotting corpse
I remember watching this movie with my mom. Years ago, seems like another lifetime ago. We all wish we could go back in time. To change the past, to make up for the future. It's ok, I mean, your not alone. We can't, but if only we could.
One of the most romantic films of all time.....❤💏🕰🎬🎼 Somewhere In Time. Christopher Reeves & Jane Seymour, they truly made this film moving with their on screen chemistry. When I think of this film a poem by the British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, published in 1850 comes to mind......I quote " I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most, 'Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all. I truly wish they had made more films like this for the romantics out here!! ❤😊🎻🎬🎼📜✍
My mama and I watched this when I was a teen. We could only watch it once. I am 48, she has passed now, my 26 year old daughter watched it before my mom passed and loved it as well. Him trying to get back to her and dying heartbroken....😢😢😢😢
I sure miss watchin that movie with my Mama ...she passed away May 2007 right before Mothers Day (May 2nd ) ...her & I always watched old movies together on the weekends or whenever...❤️💔💔
My mother passed in 2018...4 days after mother's day. She was in the hospital on Mother's day and she seemed better than she had been I a while. We took her home that next Tuesday and on Thursday morning around 5:30am she passed....I miss her terribly...😢
1:40 That moment he discovered he had met Elise after he sees her picture really hits me, and then later at 5:45 when he finds out she knew his favorite music.
People scoff at this movie that it's sentimental, but I think Christopher Reeve's performance elevates it to a really beautiful film. He's wonderful in it and very believable, making the story credible.
@@289cobra9 Yes, the movie was dismissed on release as a 'romance' but it is deeper than that - the time travelling theme is what intrigues. And pardon the pun, but it has stood the test of time - and time is the ultimate test of everything!
0:58 - Every woman I’ve ever seen this movie with, from my mom when I was a kid in 1980, to my current wife in 2024, has said exactly the same thing: “There’s no way she could’ve said no to Christopher Reeve.”
I have that music box. It was a dream come true for me. I also have a dress very similar to the white dress on the dress form in the corner of the room. I have worn it, every time, people are amazed at how beautifully made it is.
Every time I go to a library I’m always in Richard Collier mode. I’ve always loved books and I just love the college library culture they depicted so well in this movie. The way he does research on Elise and then eventually figures out who she was is just fascinating
Look close at the scene in the library at 0:14 seconds. The woman you see on the right of the screen is an extra named-- Meg Ryan- in an uncredited early film appearance.
They should’ve portrayed Mrs Roberts in the scene as Elisa McKenna’s daughter. Who would’ve been the daughter of Richard collier as well. She could’ve been on a late 60s which would’ve made sense which would’ve meant she would’ve been born in about 1913. As it was 1979
At that time, she would have been forced to go abroad, give birth to her baby, and leave it there for adoption, as her career and life as a respectable woman would have been over if it was know that she bore a child out of wedlock.
I think i've memorized every scene in this film from watching it over and over on VHS, then on laser disc, then on VCD... Btw, that locket watch is in an eternal loop in the space-time continuum :)
I think Robinson only pretended to “know” things before they happened to keep Elise under his power and make her think he knew more than he did. As long as he feared every new man she met, she would never get married and give up her career as he feared. Robinson died on the Lusitania - if he really was clairvoyant, he never would’ve boarded that ship.
It made me fearless to cross boundariers or any barriers to love the love of my life. If you can go to the past, you can overcome any obstacle in the present.
@@JohnS-il1dr Jane really is a classic beauty! People who I know personally who have met her have said that she is also very kind, funny, warm. When Jane was working to become an actress she changed her name from Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankelberg to Jane Seymour. She has 4 children & has been married then divorced 4 times. She is currently single.
I don't know how to go about this, however, I have this movie in both VCR tape and DVD. You should be able to get this movie, as it is a beautiful classic that should be still available. Here in Beaver County Western Pennsylvania, there is a DVD CD store called FYI still at the mall, even though the malls are all dead these days, that still sells this movie, I've seen it and other copies just like it that are used.
So she gave him the watch right before he goes back in time and it’s all that’s left of him in 1912 when he accidentally goes back to the present. So at what point in time did the watch actually be created?
For me, the watch represents the "magic" that made it possible for Richard to go back in time to meet Elise. But, on the movie set for Somewhere in Time, the crew actually made up t-shirts that said, 'Where'd the watch come from??' :)
You know I have have thought that many times in the 30+ year's that I have been watching this movie. However I think it was more from how driven he was to find out about Elise. Every waking thought, not able to sleep, a pull that he can't understand or explain. It's much like when he woke Arthur up in the middle of the night. He was simply beyond the limits of himself and being polite lol. I definitely get what you're saying though!
Yes, there are a few times of not several that Richard collier came across as a bit pushy and rude , but like the above person said I think we are meant to interpret his assertiveness with his passion to find Elise
I acted in 110-135 films and could I please taste Richard Collier's chest. My lover I have to go back but defeated at Sainte Menholude and I have flaws too! But its Pareey and me too!😂😢😮😊😅 Im Barbara Eden too and a gay boy too and Richard Collier I could be sometimes but I have to go back to SSaine hurst!
