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Perhaps because it has an identical ending to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" I dug this out and watched it last night. Yes, I know, sappy sappy. But it has always been a guilty pleasure of mine and has an intriguing story line. The film makers moved the story locale from the book's Southern California location to Macinaw Island in Michigan where the hotel there serves both time periods (1980 and 1912) well. Special permission to allow for motor vehicles was obtained (they are not allowed on the island). Christopher Reeve (then fresh from "Superman") stars as a successful young playwright smitten by a dead 1912 actress (the beautiful Jane Seymor) who, after traveling back in time to meet her, is thwarted in his romantic pursuit by her Svengali-like manager, Christopher Plummer.
Reeve is a bit too sweet here but this one works for me.
Follow Ups:
It is one of my wife's favorite films, and served as her introduction to Rachmaninoff (the 18th Variation, particularly). Reeve IS sweet but it is interesting how a big man can show vulnerability and sweetness...can we imagine that role played by a big man today?Reeve might have been a great actor trapped in a too-beautiful face and body (it is telling that when Marlon Brando's nose was broken, he refused to have it fixed because he thought he looked too beautiful before, an opinion that Tennessee Williams, among others, shared). It is unfortunate that just as he began to lose the cutting edge of his looks to age and we might get the opportunity to see him as a character actor (something I think he personally would have been very comfortable with), that he had his accident.
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