About Time ***½ (7/10)

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2017)

Available on Blu-ray Disc (Region B)
UK 2013 English (Colour); Comedy/Drama/Romance/Fantasy (Universal/Relativity Media/Working Title); 123 minutes (15 certificate)
Crew includes: Richard Curtis (Director/Screenwriter); Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nicky Kentish Barnes (Producers); Richard Curtis, Liza Chasin, Amelia Granger (Executive Producers); John Guleserian (Cinematographer); John Paul Kelly (Production Designer); Mark Day (Editor); Nick Laird-Clowes (Composer)
Cast includes: Domhnall Gleeson (Tim Lake), Rachel McAdams (Mary), Bill Nighy (James Lake), Lydia Wilson (Kit Kat), Lindsay Duncan (Mary Lake), Richard Cordery (Uncle Desmond), Joshua McGuire (Rory), Tom Hollander (Harry Chapman), Margot Robbie (Charlotte), Will Merrick (Jay), Vanessa Kirby (Joanna), Tom Hughes (Jimmy Kincade), Lisa Eichhorn (Mary's Mother, Jean); Richard Griffiths, Richard E. Grant (both uncredited)
"What if every moment in life came with a second chance?"
At age 21, a gangly, trainee lawyer (Gleeson) learns from his father (Nighy) that all men in their family have the ability to travel back through time to revisit (and potentially improve upon) episodes in their lives, a skill he uses to woo a beautiful American (McAdams).
The deliberately low-tech fantasy element (find a dark space and clench fists) - respecting not exactly rigorous rules - may be unique to the Curtis oeuvre, but the director's standard preoccupations (with family, mortality, love) are well to the fore, if more sentimentally played out than usual (particularly in the second half, rather less comedy than tearjerker).
McAdams starred previously as THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE.
Blu-ray Extras: Commentary, Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Bloopers, Music Video. *** (6/10)