Time Travel Love Story

Rating: 6/10 (9 November 2013)

I saw "About Time", starring Domhnall Gleeson-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:Part 2, True Grit-2010; Rachel McAdams-The Vow, Wedding Crashers; Bill Nighy-Jack the Giant Slayer, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:Part 1 and Lindsay Duncan-Under the Tuscan Sun, Star Wars:Episode 1-The Phantom Menace.
This is a weird time travel/love story. I'm not exactly sure who the target audience is. Domhnall plays a young English lad that finds out-on his 21st birthday-that he can travel into the past and change events. There are a few rules-of course, even in a time travel/love story, you have to have rules. For instance, he can only travel to destinations during his own lifetime-he could not go back and kill Hitler because that was before he was born-and he can not tell anyone about this ability-except for his own son on his 21st birthday. Bill plays his father, that gives him this startling news and Lindsay plays his clueless mother. Rachel plays the American girl that Domhnall uses his new powers to ensnare as a girlfriend and then later, as his wife. There is also a side story about the relationship between Domhnall and Bill. It was rated "R" for language and sexual content-I remember partial nudity only, nothing full frontal-and has a running time of 2 hours & 3 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD-It was a pretty typical love story, with the only new twist being the time travel ability-but it would be alright, as a rental. My wife did say that she thought it was a little too long.