About Time (2013)

About Time is a warm, bittersweet comedy-drama with a gentle sci‑fi twist: when 21‑year‑old Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) learns that the men in his family can travel back to moments they’ve already lived, he sets out to remake his life — first to find love, then to fix the small disasters and awkward moments that come with being human. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London, Tim falls for Mary (Rachel McAdams) and uses his new ability to woo her, perfect a proposal, steady a best friend’s career, and even race through traffic to be at the birth of his child. Bill Nighy plays his quietly sardonic father, who passes on both the skill and the hard‑won wisdom about its limits. The film isn’t a high‑stakes time‑travel thriller; it’s a character piece that treats the power to revisit the past as a lens on family, love, regret and choice. As Tim experiments with changing moments, he discovers unintended consequences and, eventually, that some losses and sorrows can’t be erased — only lived through. Director Richard Curtis balances gentle humor and romantic moments with unexpectedly moving scenes about parenthood, mortality and appreciating ordinary days. If you watch About Time you’ll experience a buoyant romantic charm mixed with real emotional weight: laugh‑out‑loud awkwardness, sweet, cinematic romance, and moments that will likely make you tear up. The movie invites reflection as well as entertainment — you leave reminded to savor the present and the small, imperfect moments that make life meaningful.

Actors: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy

Director: Richard Curtis

Runtime: 123 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

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