A beautifully filmed romantic science fiction movie about a playwright who becomes smitten by a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel. Through self-hypnosis, he travels back in time to the year 1912 to find love with actress Elise McKenna.
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| Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeves |
In May 1972, college theater student Richard Collier is celebrating the debut of a play he has written when he is approached by an elderly woman who places a pocket watch in his hand and pleads "come back to me".
Eight years later, Richard is a successful playwright living in Chicago, but has recently broken up with his girlfriend and is struggling with writer's block. Feeling stressed from writing his play, he decides to take a break and travels out of town to a hotel. While looking at a display in the hotel's museum, Richard becomes enthralled by a photograph of a beautiful woman. He searches for any clues that could lead to her and finds out that she was the late successful actress, Elise McKenna. He hypnotizes himself in his own hotel room and gets transferred to the year 1912 where he encounters her as well as her very possessive manager, William. Elise and Richard fall deeply in love despite William's numerous efforts to put an end to their romance. Just as things begin working out for the two, Richard sees a coin from his real present which pulls him out of his hypnotically-induced time trip. Richard later dies from shock, starvation as well as a broken heart and is reunited with the young Elise in the after life.
