R, 123 min.
Director/Writer: Richard
Curtis
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson,
Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery,
Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Will Merrick, Vanessa Kirby, Tom
Hughes
“About Time” has a right
dodgy premise for a British romantic comedy, but its small cast pulls it off
with style and grace. It involves an eccentric and reclusive family in which,
it is explained by the patriarch to his son on his 21st birthday,
all the men have the ability to travel through time. Well, back and forth from
present to past, no future travel.
There is no deep science
fiction type of meaning behind this ability. It is just a plot device to allow
for its hero to redo awkward situations and create some dilemma’s of a
different nature than you usually find in a romantic comedy. The hero is played
by the awkwardly charming Domhnall Gleeson, an actor whose name promises to
confound American audiences as much as his likeability is to make him the next
big British rom com star. Look out Hugh Grant.
He’s paired with the equally
charming Rachel McAdams, an American he meets at one of those total darkness
restaurants. Well, that’s where he meets her originally, but since he goes back
in time to help one of his relatives have a smash opening night for his new
play on that same evening, she doesn’t meet him until a week later when he
finally gets his chance to fix the fact that he never met her the first time he
met her. Doesn’t that make it sound oh so confusing? However, writer/director
Richard Curtis’s screenplay is hardly confusing. He does a wonderful job of
keeping the timeline clear, despite its multiple starts and do overs.
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