Rating: 8 out of 10, this was a fondly remembered movie from the late 1970s that I received as a Christmas gift. It’s a charming take on the life of HG Wells and time travel. The plot has HG Wells actually creating a time machine and then following Jack the Ripper from Victorian London to 1979 San Francisco. He finds love there and has a lot of trouble dealing with a future he had imagined as some sort of utopia. It’s interesting that evil Jack, played by Warner, finds it much easier to adjust to the time change than does Wells. It’s a nice little story told extremely well and the actors are extremely good, especially Steenburgen. I forgot how hot she used to be. The special effects are laughably bad but the story and implications of time travel are enough to make this a great watch. It’s especially funny now, more than 30 years later looking at how the 1970s viewed themselves and, as always, I love watching movies set in San Francisco – one of my favorite places on earth.
MVP: Steenburgen as Amy, the plucky modern love interest for HG Wells
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