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Director : Richard Curtis
Running Time : 124 mins
On his 21st birthday, Tim Lake (Gleeson) is informed by his father (Nighy) that he has inherited the ability to travel back in time within his own lifetime. Realising that he can’t use this power for financial gain, he decides to use it to find a girlfriend. He soon meets Mary (McAdams), an American working in London for a publishing company, and he starts reliving their moments together until he can get them perfect.
The moment where Tim meets Mary in the restaurant run by blind people could have lasted so much longer, with Tim trying to get Harry’s play just right while still meeting Mary. It’s a shame he wasted that moment as it’s a great first meeting story, and instead he gets the creepy party moment as their first meeting, where he basically just hooks up with her. This is classic Curtis fair, with the strangely poor yet middle-class setting and the comedy of errors moments, but this is much more of a drama than, say, Love Actually or Notting Hill, and though the moral of the story seems to be that life is worth living just once and that you can’t get everything perfect, this isn’t explicitly spelled out. Just think, if he couldn’t travel through time, Tim’s life would have been pretty much the same.
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