Time After Time Movie Review

Starring: Malcolm MacDowell, Mary Steenburgen

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H.G. Wells tells his late 19th century colleagues he has invented a time machine. Unfortunately, the first person to test it is Jack the Ripper, who uses it to escape the authorities into the future. Wells must follow the killer and track him down. He finds himself in San Francisco in the late 1970s and enlists the help of pretty bank clerk Amy Robbins (Steenburgen) while trying to catch the Ripper. MacDowell is delightfully and uncharacteristically cautious and stodgy as Wells, David Warner crisply sinister as his nemesis. Nicholas Meyer (director of Star Trek II and VI, author of _The Seven Percent Solution_) cowrote and directed this fine thriller.
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Time Travel: - primarily to the future
Romance Yes
Spying - Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - finding a killer (criminal)
Time Travel Story? Yes
To what time period? - 1960's-1980's

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - 40's-50's
Events of movie makes character more... - sensitive - caring - happy - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie? - 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%
Ethnicity - White
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physical condition - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Big cities? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing

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