History Film / SomewhereInTime

* OperaGloves: Elise wears these seemingly half the entire length of her screen time in the film.

* ObscuredSpecialEffects: The time travel is achieved through the mundane process of [[MentalTimeTravel self hypnosis]]. The visuals used to represent Richard's journey through time are similar to those that might be used in any ordinary drama to represent falling in and out of a dream. Reportedly, because the story involved time travel as a plot element, this was done to avoid being [[SciFiGhetto lumped in with]] all of the science fiction genre films during the post StarWars era.

* ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics: A post-film example -- the theme was given lyrics in TheNineties and turned into a song of the same title for Michael Crawford. It appears on the soundtrack to his Las Vegas show ''Theatre/{{EFX}}!'', where it served as a prerecorded prelude due to its fantasy theme, but it's easy to interpret the first-person lyrics as coming from Richard's point of view.

%%* LoveBeforeFirstSight

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Even though the story covers two time periods that are about 70 years apart, from Richard's perspective the main events happen over a very short period of time: he stays in the hotel for only a couple of weeks (exactly eight days in the book), and his time spent in the past is barely more than a day.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Even though the story covers two time periods that are about 70 years apart, from Richard's perspective the main events happen over a very short period of time: he stays in the hotel for only about a week, and his time spent in the past is barely more than a day.

A 1980 film adaptation of Creator/RichardMatheson's ''Bid Time Return'', directed by Creator/JeannotSzwarc and scored by Music/JohnBarry. The script was written by Matheson himself.

Even if you have SingleTargetSexuality, you just might give up after finding out that your One True Love lives in a different time period. But that doesn't stop playwright and writer Richard Collier (Creator/ChristopherReeve), who for lack of a better description manages to [[MentalTimeTravel psych himself back in time]] to find the beautiful woman he's seen in an old photograph. That's right, the space-time continuum is just no match for ThePowerOfLove.

Richard arrives in [[TheEdwardianEra the year 1912]], at the same vintage hotel he was staying at in 1980. There, he encounters the woman he's looking for, stage actress Elise [=McKenna=] (Creator/JaneSeymourActress). However, her overprotective manager William Fawcett Robinson (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) won't put up with anyone romancing ''his'' star.

Richard arrives in TheEdwardianEra at the same vintage hotel he was staying at in 1980, where he encounters the woman he's looking for, stage actress Elise [=McKenna=] (Creator/JaneSeymourActress). However, her overprotective manager William Fawcett Robinson (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) won't put up with anyone romancing ''his'' star.

Richard arrives in TheEdwardianEra at the same vintage hotel he was staying at in 1980, where he encounters the woman he's looking for, stage actress Elise [=McKenna=] (Creator/JaneSeymourActress). However, her overprotective manager William Fawcett Robinson (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) won't hear of anyone romancing ''his'' star.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: The novel is set at the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego. The film was originally going to be filmed there, but it was discovered that it had too many modern touches (like power lines and TV antennas). Eventually a friend of director Creator/JeannotSzwarc suggested the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.

Even if you have SingleTargetSexuality, you just might give up after finding out that your One True Love lives in a different time period, but that doesn't stop the playwright and writer Richard Collier (Creator/ChristopherReeve), who for lack of a better description manages to [[MentalTimeTravel psych himself back in time]] to find the beautiful woman he's seen in an old photograph. That's right, the space-time continuum is just no match for ThePowerOfLove.