Somewhere in Time (1980) is a romantic fantasy film. The film adaptation is based on the 1975 novel Bid Time Return written by Richard Matheson. The movie is about Richard Collier, a playwright who becomes obsessed by a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel. Using his self-hypnosis, he travels back in time in 1912 to find love with actress Elise McKenna, but her manager William Fawcett Robinson fears that romance will ruin her career, and resolves to stop it.

I have seen this movie over 20 times, and still love to see it. I think the film is beautifully redacted from the novel. I would recommend anyone who loves romantic films to watch it, if they haven’t seen it. I think reading the novel would be a good idea, too. If it is still available in stores still, which I bet it is. But, reading the book isn’t necessary.