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2002

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Starring	Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba
Director	Simon Wells
Genres	Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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The Time Machine

This adaptation of the classic sci-fi adventure tale by H.G. Wells, directed by Simon Wells (the great-grandson of the author), stars Guy Pearce as Alex Hartdegen, an absent-minded New York professor preoccupied with what passes for technology at the turn of the 20th century. However, the one thing that can distract him from his calculations is his love for Emma (Sienna Guillory), his bride-to-be. When tragedy strikes and he loses Emma, Alex uses the time-travelling machine that he's built in secret to change the present by going into the past. When that fails to alter fate, he leaps forward in time, eventually landing 800,000 years in the future, an era where humanity has splintered into two races; the docile Eloi and the ferocious Morlocks. There Alex befriends two of the Eloi (Samantha and Omero Mumba) and attempts to help them resist almost certain death at the hands of the Morlocks...

Starring	Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons
Director	Simon Wells
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	French, Italian
Hearing-impaired	English, Italian
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Released	Production year: 2002 To Rent: DVD: not available

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  tragic and touching story
  
  The first five minnutes of it, I really started getting into it, it has a different story line to the original.
  
  The story is a about a professor (guy... read more »
  
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  Thoughts of future -past
  
  Not what you expect but still a great winter evening watch, thought proviking escapism with superb effects. Very different to the book but don't let that ... read more »
  
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  Very good remake. They didn't overdo it using the new available technology and still the film has a modern flair. We loved it.
  
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  Excellent film, really enjoyed it, it didn't matter that is wasn't exactly like the original, a thoroughly entertaining film, definitely recommend it.
  
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