About Time (2013 film)

It's all a question of time (Original Title: About Time ) is a romantic comedy from 2013 directed by Richard Curtis, who also wrote the screenplay. . The main roles were Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.

The movie was released on September 4, 2013 in the UK and launched in Germany on 17 October 2013.

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On his 21st birthday learns Tim Lake from his father that he, like all the male members of the family has the opportunity to travel back in time. Tim believes his father not initially, but then travels back to New Year's Eve of last year, where he has rejected the midnight kiss a girl and this embarrassed by it. Now he kisses the girl who smiles at him kindly.

In the summer, Tim's sister Kit Kat receives a visit from the lovely Charlotte, which remains for the entire holiday at his parents' house. Tim is attracted to Charlotte, but dares until the last night of their stay, they raise this with them. Charlotte tells him that summer already, unfortunately, is yes now over and it maybe something could have been, if he had married at the beginning of the summer, to ask them. Tim then travels back in time and confesses his feelings Charlotte shortly after their arrival. She tells him that maybe he should wait until the end of the summer and then you 'd see how it would go. Tim acknowledges that all time travel can not change the feelings of the people.

A short time later, Tim pulls to London to begin a career as a lawyer. He lives with Harry, an old friend of his father. Harry is a choleric screenwriter who makes the same Tim upon his arrival for forgetting " the best idea he ever had" responsible. During a visit of Tim's best friend Jay both go eat in a dark restaurant where Tim the charming Mary gets to know. Both can be sympathetic and so Tim asks about leaving the restaurant for her phone number. When he comes home, Harry tells him that the premiere of his play was a disaster, because the main character had forgotten his lines. Tim travels back in time and makes sure that the show is a rip-roaring success. But when he wants to call Mary later, he notes that at the time of travel and her phone number was deleted from his phone memory. Since Mary has outed himself in an interview as a great Kate Moss fan, he visits an exhibition of her photographs where he actually meets again after a long wait on Mary, but no longer knows him.

Tim learns that Mary now has a boyfriend and asked how exactly they got to know. He travels back and convinced Mary of a romantic dinner before his rival turns up at the party. Both are a couple and get married after Mary became pregnant.

On the 1st birthday of their daughter Posy Tim's sister has drunk a car accident after she has once again quarreled with her ​​boyfriend Jimmy. Tim dedicates his sister into his secret. The siblings travel back to New Year's Eve celebration and ensure that Kit Kat and Jimmy are not a couple.

When they return to their time again, Tim's child but is no longer Posy, but in their place for Tim now completely strange child was conceived. Therefore, he can not so far to travel back and must ensure that his sister is finished with their problem otherwise. Kit Kat eventually begins a relationship with Tim's best friend Jay. Tim and Mary have a second child and Kit Kat is pregnant.

Tim's father finally been diagnosed with cancer and died shortly thereafter, Tim travels back again and again to spend time with his father again. When Mary Tim opened that they would have liked to have a third child, Tim is torn. He would also like to have another child, but after his birth, he will never be able to travel back to his father. He speaks again to his father and decides for the child. During pregnancy, he traveled several times back to his father.

For the last time he visited him shortly before birth. His father travels from there with him for a day at the beach back when Tim was still a little boy. Before he returns, his father tells him the secret of his happy life.

Tim should experience quite commonplace and then a second time, where he should be no more stress on little hurdles of everyday life the second time. Every day once Tim moves for a while just before he goes to enjoy every day at the first time as his last.

Reviews

The film received mostly good to very good reviews.

So praised film starts the film as a comedy, which leave the " commercial " genre paths and despite the fantastic time-travel element " incredibly life-like" and " really " am working. Curtis' film edit " to dream " and was " incredibly touching ."

Cinema called the film a " moving cinematic experience that the viewer " enchanted and transformed ". "

According Programmkino.de is all a question of time " without question one of the strangest, yet most beautiful films of the year ".

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