Time After Time

(1979)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 399 votes

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Year: 1979

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Николас Мейер

Cast: Малкольм Макдауэлл, Дэвид Уорнер, Мэри Стинбёрджен, Чарльз Чоффи, Кент Уильямс, Андония Катсарос, Патти Д’Арбанвиль, Джеймс Гаррет, Keith McConnell, Leo Lewis

Plot

Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.

It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only one who knows what happened to him. Not telling anyone except his trusting housekeeper, Wells follows Stevenson in order to capture and bring him back to face justice. Where Stevenson has gone is 1979 San Francisco. There, Wells is dismayed to find that the future is not Utopia as he had predicted. But Wells is also picked up by a young woman named Amy Robbins. As Wells and Amy search for Stevenson, Stevenson conversely is after Wells to obtain the master key to the time machine. As Stevenson continues his murderous ways, he will stop at nothing to achieve his desires, which places Amy in danger.