Time After Time Page #4

Synopsis: It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only one who knows what happened to him. Not telling anyone except his trusting housekeeper, Wells follows Stevenson in order to capture and bring him back to face justice. Where Stevenson has gone is 1979 San Francisco. There, Wells is dismayed to find that the future is not Utopia as he had predicted. But Wells is also picked up by a young woman named Amy Robbins. As Wells and Amy search for Stevenson, Stevenson conversely is after Wells to obtain the master key to the time machine. As Stevenson continues his murdero
Director(s): Nicholas Meyer
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  7 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG
Year:
1979
112 min
557 Views


clear, you'll have a check in a week.

I don't have a week.

I don't believe you exist.

But if you do, I need your help.

Just let me stay the night...

...and I'll be on my way in the

morning. I won't trouble you again.

I'm sorry. We're closing now.

Utopia.

200. 300. 400.

There you are, sir.

May I help you?

I'd like to see the foreign

currency officer.

- You're looking at him.

- You?

Surely there must be a gentleman?

Don't be a chauvinist. It's taken

me three years to get here.

Don't you believe in women's

liberation?

Women's liberation.

I'm sorry. I meant no disrespect.

In fact, I was all for it,

so I shouldn't complain.

You were all for it?

What changed your mind?

Nothing.

I don't know whether you can help me.

- May I help you?

- Thank you.

I'm certainly willing for you to try.

I'm looking for an Englishman who may

have tried to exchange money.

I'll say.

Then he was here?

Yesterday, big as life.

With a money belt that was bigger.

Must've weighed a ton. A friend?

We were traveling together,

and now I've lost him.

- His name was John Leslie Stevenson.

- That's him.

I wanted him to open an account but

he only cashed a few hundred dollars.

You wouldn't happen to know

what's become of him?

He asked me to recommend a hotel.

- An hotel?

- I sent him to the Hyatt Regency.

- Hyatt Regency?

- Yeah.

Oh, thank you.

You here on a visit?

Tourist type thing?

If you don't know anyone,

let me show you around.

We San Franciscans are pretty

proud of this old town.

Well...

...yes, perhaps that might be nice.

It's your option. You've got the card.

Give me a ring. My name's Amy.

- A ring?

- You know:

My number's on the card.

- What's your name?

- Herbert...

...Wells.

What was that?

That was a very cute man.

That was a pickup.

- Against bank rules.

- I don't care.

At least he's not gay.

Plus, I love the way he talks.

How about that suit? Early American.

He'll be back.

- What's up, doc?

- Pardon?

Where to?

Could you take me, as quickly

as possible, to the Hyatt...?

- Who is it?

- Your breakfast, sir.

- Bless my soul.

- May I come in?

Certainly, certainly.

You were literally the last person

on earth I expected to see.

There was no way to prevent the

machine's return. I lack the key.

- No.

- You do manage to find the nerve...

...after I tested

your machine for you.

How did you manage to track me down?

That was brilliant.

We'll add detective to your list

of accomplishments.

You're a regular Sherlock Holmes.

I'm not here to engage

in idle banter, Stevenson.

You've used me and my machine

to escape justice.

I must congratulate you on the device.

At dinner the other century,

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Nicholas Meyer

Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American writer and director, known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After. Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. He appeared as himself during the 2017 On Cinema spinoff series The Trial, during which he testified about Star Trek and San Francisco. more…

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