Nick and Janine live in marital bliss until Janine's ex-husband warps time to try to tear them apart. As Nick's memories disappear, he must decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to ... Read allNick and Janine live in marital bliss until Janine's ex-husband warps time to try to tear them apart. As Nick's memories disappear, he must decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto - or let go of - everything he loves.Nick and Janine live in marital bliss until Janine's ex-husband warps time to try to tear them apart. As Nick's memories disappear, he must decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto - or let go of - everything he loves.
- Elliot
- (as Charles Singh)
- Ryder
- (as Natalie D'Amico)
- Hekima
- (voice)
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The film isn't really about time travel. It's never really explained how it works or how people have come to just accept their lives regularly being altered by people messing around in the past.
This is all love story and if people can still be in love if they don't remember each other.
It's a bit slow and pretentious in places. I almost gave up after 5 mins. When I got to the end it felt more like achievement than satisfaction at a good film.
It really felt like it could have been much better done. It's hard to really care about the characters so you feel cold against what is happening instead of being drawn in and involved. It should be a film you discuss about after but it's just lacking in something.
It's worth a watch but it just really feels like it should have been a far bigger and better film. A waste as it's well acted and it's believable but not well executed.
This is an intriguing Twilight Zone premise. The film does need to use that premise in a compelling story. While I'm fascinating with the world-building, the movie fails to construct the story around it. It's like there's a great foundation but the building is not much more than a box. This is almost two hours but it's really only doing the first act. I wonder if the short story is worth a shorter flick. Maybe the story needs expanding.
Did you know
- TriviaThe short story by Robert Silverberg that this movie is based on was first published in the June 1983 issue of Playboy. Silverberg had previously published a collection of ten short stories under the same title in 1966, and decided to re-use the title for this story.
- Quotes
Zoe Mikkelsen: What if you go back and change your past but you end up with no future?
- Crazy creditsIn keeping with one of the film's mantras, that "Love is formed in a circle", each of the main end credits has a letter "O" which persists while the other letters fade out.
- SoundtracksIn the Beginning
Written by Jeremy Steig
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- Une aiguille dans une botte de temps
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- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
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