"Time after Time" is a nice film for the time travel genre. The premise is HG Wells invents a time machine and it is used by Jack the Ripper to go to 1970's San Francisco.
This is a well told story of Mr. Wells trying to do "the right thing" in an era he knows nothing about. His hopes and dreams for what the future SHOULD be like are dimmed by what he sees. It takes the befriending by a good woman (played well by Mary Steenburgen) to help him on his quest to get Red Jack and restore his faith in humanity. I didn't know this was Nicholas Meyers' first film until I looked at the advertising blurb: and it is classic Meyers. There are very few moments that drag and many small, entertaining moments of feeling for the man out of time.
While this film is not at the top of my time travel story list, it does rate a "worth seeing". At the top, in no particular order: "Terminator", "Terminator 2", "Star Trek IV" and "Time Bandits". If you are a big HG Wells fan, then DO see this film, Malcolm McDowell does a great job of giving us the displaced Victorian Gentleman.
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