About Time (2013)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 56
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 21
Beautifully filmed and unabashedly sincere, About Time finds director Richard Curtis at his most sentimental.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 5
Beautifully filmed and unabashedly sincere, About Time finds director Richard Curtis at his most sentimental.
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At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time... The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place...by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the
Nov 1, 2013 Limited
Universal Pictures
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Cast
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Tom Hughes
Jimmy Kinkade -
Domhnall Gleeson
Tim Lake -
Rachel McAdams
Mary -
Bill Nighy
Tim's Father -
Tom Hollander
Harry -
Lindsay Duncan
Tim's Mother -
Margot Robbie
Charlotte -
Lydia Wilson
Kit Kat -
Vanessa Kirby
Joanna -
Joshua McGuire
Rory -
Richard Cordery
Uncle D. -
Will Merrick
Jay -
Clemmie Dugdale
Ginger Jenny -
Harry Hadden-Paton
Rupert -
Mitchell Mullen
Mary's Father Fitz -
Lisa Eichhorn
Mary's Mother Jean -
Jenny Rainsford
Polly -
Natasha Powell
Aunty May -
Mark Healy
Dans Le Noir Maitre ... -
Ben Benson
Theatre Deserter -
Philip Voss
Theatre Judge -
Tom Godwin
Prompter -
Pal Aron
Bhattie QC -
Catherine Steadman
Tina -
Andrew Martin Yates
Wedding Priest -
Verity Fullerton
Posy (Newborn) -
Veronica Owings
Posy (1 Year) -
Olivia Konten
Posy (2 1/2-3 Years) -
Sarah Steinberg Hell...
Posy (5 Years) -
Jaiden, Dervish
Boy Posy -
Jacob Francis
Jeff (Newborn) -
Jago Freud
Jeff (5 Months) -
Ollie Phillips
Jeff (2 Years) -
Sophie Pond
Jo (6 Months) -
Sophie Brown
Jo (1 Year) -
Molly Seymour
Trudy (Party Guest) -
Matilda Sturridge
Flirty Girl -
Tom Stourton
John -
Rebecca Chew
Pret A Manger Server -
Jon West
Court Clerk -
Graham Richard Howge...
Judge -
Kerrie Liane Studhol...
Jury Foreman -
Ken Hazeldine
Defendant -
Barbar Gough
Jazz Singer -
Jon Boden
Busker -
Charlie Curtis
Young Tim
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All Critics (56) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (21)
It raises the inherent implausibility of the rom-com narrative to a new level.
Top CriticIn a word: Ugh.
About Time is like a sermon that starts with a few good jokes and ends with tremulous exhortations to live, live.
Beautiful to look at, with its seaside estates and its rain-soaked weddings and besotted characters being lovely to one another, but it's a treacly greeting card coming from someone whose love letters used to have a little more bite.
There won't be a dry eye in the house, but the tears will be unearned.
In Curtis's hands, time travel is really a way of learning how to live a better life. (Strangely, though, we're not meant to think there's anything creepy about playing puppetmaster with people's lives.)
Those willing-or eager-to indulge About Time's schmaltziest moments are rewarded with hits of pure, uncut joy and sorrow.
About Time captures the beauty in our hectic, everyday lives we sometimes take for granted - without becoming a goofy tale about a man who can travel back in time.
The best parts of "Groundhog Day," some of the charm of "Four Weddings" and "Love, Actually."
Typically mushy Richard Curtis entry, but his movies are nothing if not heartfelt. ABOUT TIME is an enjoyable romp, and will likely put a smile on your face.
Shamelessly sentimental, this feel-good fantasy fable will tickle your funny bone and tug at your heart.
Time travel is turned into "take two" where, if at first you don't succeed, try something else. As practiced here by writer-director Richard Curtis and his fumbling lothario, Domhnall Gleeson, the result resembles a sputtering sentimental journey.
A good-hearted film with nice moments but the gimmick is weak and its mawkish sentiments belong on Hallmark cards, not in a top-notch romantic comedy.
Director Richard Curtis' third film in the top job is a more daring effort than the more conventional (and messy) Love Actually, with a central plot conceit handled in a fashion that's more pointed than those misled by the trailer might be expecting.
The nervous, insecure Gleeson and the sweet, level-headed McAdams make a nice pair.
Curtis has made a fluffy middle of the road rom-com and his attitude seems to be that if viewers are lured in by a time travel twist, so much the better.
Having laid the tracks for the romantic comedy genre with Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, British comedy warhorse Richard Curtis hits a film career high with his most beautiful, measured and gorgeously eccentric film yet.
It's basically 'Life Actually', with some very sloppy writing.
Richard Curtis lives to make you melt, and his latest, About Time, should just about do the trick. It's sad and sweet. And shapeless. But mostly sweet.
A romantic comedy with tragic twists. Feel the joy, feel the pain ... sweet and sour. Cinematically, the juxtapose is key
If you loved Four Weddings and Love Actually, you will also love this warm, funny and uplifting film that champions living each moment to the max
About Time is funny and charming as all get out, but its messy core keeps the many pieces of quirk, sentiment and romance from lining up into anything worthy of all the talent here.
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Richard Curtis has only directed three movies, and one of them is my second favorite movie ever, "Love Actually". Whenever I hear/see "from the people that brought you Love Actually" I take notice. "Pirate Radio" was his second movie, another very underrated comedy and now "About Time". "About Time" is a simple love story with time travel as a center device. It stars Domhnall Gleeson as Tim, an awkward guy who wants nothing more than to find a girlfriend. On his 21st birthday his world is thrown for a loop when his father(Bill Nighy) tells him how the men in their family can travel through time. He can't go to the future or anything crazy, just back to his own life, to relive and change if he wants. From there he uses time travel to help him find the love of his life and fix some small wrongs in his life. Rachel McAdams plays his love interest Mary and they have wonderful chemistry. The cast in this is just perfect. Scenes with Nighy and Domhnall are fantastic as you really do buy into their father-son relationship. Being a father has given me new insight to movies like this, and there were a couple moments that nearly brought a tear to my eye. Now this isn't one of those movies with big dramatic scenes, or a lot of melodrama. It's a small love story with a small sci-fi element thrown in. Emily really enjoyed it because of this, that it really isn't what you would expect. It's just a nice, simple movie, that is very funny and charming. I liked it a lot(now it was a free advance screening, so I'm sure that didn't hurt), and would say it's an absolute perfect date movie, that guys will enjoy too.