One of its kind.

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2019)

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Drama.
'About Time' is the story of a man who at the age of 21 discovers that all men in his family could time travel and he lives the rest of his life changing things that didn't go well as he wanted them to. This includes, getting his first girlfriend, helping Harry, finding his true love, Mary, making everything go perfect between them in multiple trials, saving his sister from an accident and then undoing it, meeting his father even after he died and everything in between these. Richard Curtis, well-known for his heartfelt movies like Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jone's Diary and much more, did an extremely pleasing work with this movie too. This was the kind of rom-com that had equally-balanced humor along with romance. The background score of the movie made watching the movie as if I was star-gazing. I could just go on and on for hours. Tim (Domnhall Gleeson) was the main character. Mary (Rachel McAdams), Tim's Dad (Bill Nighy), Mom (Lindsay Duncan), Kit Kat, his sister (Lydia Wilson), Uncle Desmond (Richard Cordery) and few other supporting actors made the cast for this movie.
Tim and Kit Kat were the kind of siblings everyone of us has; pulling legs and watching their backs at reasonable phases of life. Kit Kat helps Tim get Mary when he once lost her for his friend, Harry, while Tim made sure he was there for Kit Kat when she met with a terrible accident after having a huge fight with her boyfriend, Jimmy, with whom she sort of had an abusive relationship and also made her undo all her wrong partner choices with his time travelling ability. He was also there to make Kit Kat feel good when she said- I am the faller of the family, and felt miserable.
Uncle Desmond was a very sweet character to go with. I fell for him when he told Tim when they all knew about Tim's Dad's cancer-
'At your wedding he said he loved me. That was the best day of my life, so this is probably the worst.'
It showed how much he loved his brother.
Mary, on the other hand, was an assistant at a publisher and did reading for a living. She was an insecure woman who is obsessed with Kate Moss. I like how Mary isn't shown a perfect always-feel-good character. She almost had me when she told Tim's Mom-
'Well, I'm very insecure.
I, um, I've a very bad temper sometimes.'
It almost felt like a personal attack to me.
The best supporting actor is ofcourse, Nighy, who played Tim's Dad. His character is a wise above middle-aged man. He guided Tim on how to use his time travelling power in the real sense to live life to the fullest. He had all the qualities a son would look in his father, so much love and care, and also a bit Dad-humor. Tim, the main lead, was a kind man. He loved his family and his wife and kids. He always wanted to do everything perfect by going back in the moment again and again. But, by the end he realizes, that's not how you live, live life to moments, and you won't ever have to travel back to correct things. The movie has a mixed ending, sad and happy. Tim's dad dies, but eventually the family becomes fine. For the happy part, Tim and Mary live happily ever after with three of their kids.
I had lost the thing I always had for happy endings, but I found myself falling for it this time like a kid. Suddenly, I could believe in all the happiness that just exists and might cross paths with our lives at atleast some point of time.
The heart of the movie, is ofcourse, father-son relationship. In all, it's a sweet-sour movie that provokes questions and leaves you in happy-tears at the end.