Release Date: August 8th, 2013
Genre: Science Fiction | Drama | Romance
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson | Rachel McAdams
Available on: Amazon: https://amzn.to/38FTSpM
There are moments in our life when we make choices such that we wish we could go back in time and change. But, if we did that we would be unable to see the adventures that would await us like turning over to the pages in a book and waiting for the dramatic finale in the end. That is the way of life. There are times in one's lives where we wish we could undo all the bad things that happen but sometimes when we do encounter bad moments in our lives, we have moments that we will be thankful for the rest of our lives.
Domhnall Gleeson is Tim, a kind but unsure, stammering sort of fellow. On his 21st birthday, his father – a fellow time traveller played by Bill Nighy, breaks the news of their unusual ability to move backwards – but never forward – in time.
The men in their family have the flexibility to travel back in time. All Tim needs to do is clench his fists, think of the moment he wants to return to and he's there. Rachel McAdams plays the American who instigates Tim's attention, and with good reason: She's a peppy, jolly girl with bangs. The movie moves episodically, slowly, through roughly ten years, and that feels great: to travel with these bizarre people and get to know them. Director Richard Curtis, the acclaimed screenwriter (Notting Hill) and director (Love Actually) unwinds this movie like a smooth melody.
But travelling in time turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to work as an attorney, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary. They fall for each other, then an unfortunate time-travel incident makes it so that he's never met her at all. So they meet again for the first time, again-and-again. But finally, after a lot of cunning time-travelling, he wins her heart. Tim then uses his power to propose to her just the right way, to save his wedding from the worst best-man speeches, to save his best friend from professional disaster and to get his pregnant better half to the hospital in time for the birth of their girl, despite a nasty traffic jam outside.
But as his unusual life progresses, Tim finds out that his distinctive gift cannot save him from the troubles and ups and downs that have a consequence on all families, everywhere. There are limits to what time travel is able to do, and it can be dangerous too. About Time may be a comedy regarding love and time travel, that discovers that, in the end, living the life at fullest might not necessarily need time travel after all.
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