About Time

Really touching story of the love between a father and son. This is such a great movie. Story, direction, performances.

Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams shine in this delightful romantic comedy that will bring a smile to your heart. It's sweet story of love and the joys of struggles of maturing through life.Tim (Gleeson) is a mildly nerdy but totally lovable guy stumbling through life until his father (Bill Nighy) reveals a deep and shocking family secret. All the men in the family have the ability to time travel. They can only go back in time and only to events in their actual life. They can't go back and change history but can redirect events in their own lives. There can be a comparison to GROUNDHOG DAY but ABOUT TIME takes a different direction as Tim mostly uses time travel to enhance his romantic life and always with the best of intentions.Life changes for Tim when he meets lovely Mary (Rachel McAdams) in a dating in the dark event in a pub. Cool idea. Two couples sitting in the dark and talking without seeing what each other looks like. Needless to say a warm love story ensues. McAdams is always lovely and Gleeson's pleasant gangly looks endear him to the audience. Tim loses Mary's number so time travel to the rescue to meet her again.Travelling back to the near past, Tim already knows Mary but she is a stranger to him, so he has to act carefully. Their first night together, Tim feels awkward so he can go back in time twice to improve his performance. The third time is a charm and the idea is hilarious. Tim makes an occasional trip back in time to tweak an event such as who should be his best man. A trip too far back in time to help his troubled sister changes the present in a shocking and unexpected way. Be careful with that time travel.ABOUT TIME is a great rainy day film to enjoy with a loved one or when you just are on your own and want a "lift" after a run day. Sometimes we just need a happy and fun film with no major conflicts or troublesome character. ABOUT TIME is pure fun and delight. If there is one flaw, it's simply that this nice film could have even been better with more humor and time travel. As it is, ABOUT TIME is a delightful sweet film.

I like the idea of time travel movies and thought this looked cute, but it ended up being so much more. It's a wonderful, uplifting, feel-good movie that's romantic, charming, thought provoking and easy to get lost in. The characters are tremendously likable, from Domhnall Gleeson, whose journey from geeky teen to thoughtful man is a pleasure to watch, to Rachel McAdams as the woman he travels through time for, to Bill Nighy as the father whose wisdom and warmth shapes the entire family.While time travel is part of the plot -- at age 21, the men in the family acquire the ability to go back to different points in their own lives -- it's not about changing history, chasing money or fame or using time travel for some grand agenda. Rather, the focus is on the relationships and learning to be happy. There are humorous moments, and some very sweet ones, as well as the inevitable tangle of trying to change one thing and mistakenly undoing other important things that then need to be fixed. But all of this is backdrop -- it's really a story about love, family, and what's truly important in life. It's a bit old fashioned, yet the message is timeless, and the characters are people you want to spend time with.If you're looking for a charming, happy, purely feel-good movie that will leave you feeling uplifted, it doesn't get much better than this.

There is no doubt in my mind that we will be able in the future travel in time. It can happen when we finally would understand that the time is just our concept and everything happens simultaneously. Like the bubbles rise and burst so do our souls, physical lives and universes. When we shall mount these powers like the main protagonist of this wonderful movie, young man named Tim, we have to be careful like him. If we will not conduct our travels in love, with kindness and acceptance, we can make mistakes like him, when he found after particular travel that his child was a boy and not the girl he left home. This and other contemplations were going through my mind throughout two thirds of the movie and I thought it was boring. I do not like stories about dysfunctional people ( these days perhaps 95 percent of the new movies are like that), but something was telling me that this was not such a movie. All came clearer in the morning after, when I remarked something about this movie to my wife while we were still in the bed. My wonderful wife told me her very different outlook. She liked it very much. She said that she liked all characters, because they loved each other, accepted each other, they were kind and trying to help each other. I realized that in this moving story there were only protagonists, not even one antagonist, trickster, bad ass, or whatever you would call such person. She pointed at the main character, shy young man who was even afraid to kiss the girl he liked, but learned through his travels to be self confident, nice, loving and compassionate. As the story went, he used his travels to concentrate on helping not just himself, but others, especially his troubled sister. Something like that is quite extraordinary in our country, as my wife said. The father is already on the other side, but still hanging around so they can travel in time together with his son to their favorite beach, when he was a young kid. The spectrum of such unselfish family members is enriched by the lovely uncle who maybe is not lucid anymore, but he is still cute, loving and compassionate. Well, the movie is situated in London in the United Kingdom, and the only unsympathetic people in the very short segment are prejudiced American parents visiting their daughter Mary and the future son in law Tim. This ten years old movie has through them only a glimpse of what we see now, growing divisions, prejudices, over-judgements and growing mutual hate in our society which can burry as all. I hope not. This subtle movie ( as my wife classified it) is one of those maybe showing the other, better way.

This has to be one of my most favorite movies of all time! I love acting, I love the unique theme, and most of all I love how this movie inspires me to live each day with intention!!! Highly recommend!!!!