Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Tom Hollander and Margot Robbie
U.K., 2013
On his 21st birthday, a young man learns that every male in his family has the ability to time travel into their own pasts to relive days and change the things they want to. He decides to use his new found power to find himself a girlfriend, and as his relationship blossoms and his life changes, he comes to look at his time travel power from several new angles.
This is probably the best movie I’ve watched for Romancefest 2019 so far, dethroning the also great “I’ll See You in my Dreams.” The best thing about this movie is that I was waiting or its entire run time for the plot to get in the way of the characters, for the time travel premise to somehow lead to a crisis where the character must sacrifice or choose one thing over another or learn a lesson about the power he wields – and it never really came. And I’m glad it never really came. Yes, the main character grows and changes and learns from his time travel experiences, and the time travel premise is explored to its full potential in many different ways, but it ends up being used to teach lessons about appreciating the little things, approaching our days with our eyes open and a positive attitude, and taking advantage of what we have while we can before it’s gone. It’s an outlandish premise but one of the most human movies I’ve seen in a long time.
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