Is it a science fiction movie? A chase thriller? A fish-out-of-water comedy?
It turns out it’s all three, AND a quirky Mary Steenburgen romance.
Malcolm McDowell, usually an incorrigible hooligan – or at best an anti-hero – gets his chance to play sweet-natured, as H.G. Wells, in pursuit of perennial bad guy David Warner, as Jack the Ripper, in “Time After Time” (1979). This playful piece of high concept postmodernism marked the directorial debut of Nicholas Meyer, who had rocketed to fame, just a few years earlier, on his revisionist psychological study of another notable Victorian, Sherlock Holmes, in “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.”
Roy Bjellquist and I will round out our time-travel weekend (which begin on Friday, with a discussion of George Pal’s “The Time Machine”), with a little table talk about “Time After Time,” on a special Sunday edition of Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.
All’s Wells that ends Wells. Chime in and join the conversation. This timely exchange will be live-streamed on Facebook, Sunday evening at 7:00 EDT.
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