Love across Time
- by David Gray and Brittany Wiscombe, directed by Brian Brough
- Feature Film
- Romance
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Love across Time by David Gray and Brittany Wiscombe, directed by Brian Brough (Amazon, 1 November 2024).
Sent to England to inspect an estate for a possible sale, Chelsea stumbles across a time portal in the cellar that leads to the time of the last of the Charles Barkleys to live there.
—Michael Main
It’s complicated, but there’s a theory that if you do something different in the past, it could change the course of history.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1700 to 1799: Charles’s home time: 1799
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Chelsea’s home time
- Timeline Models
- Unexplained Timeline Model: The movie wasn’t clear on whether everything Charles did after returning to 1799 was exactly the same as what history recorded. If so, then this would be a single consistent timeline.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: Although Chelsea and Charles discuss the notion of timeslips, the mirror is clearly a portal.
- Themes
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: Charles’s £1,000 investment in 1799 grows to about £250,000,000 by the 21st century.
- Never Change the Past!: Chelsea is adament that they not change anything.
- Stuck in Time: Initially, they don’t know how to return Charles to his own time. And later, when the mirror breaks, he really is stuck in the 21st century.
- Western Union from a Time Traveler in the Past: Charles trusts the bank to deliver his letter and bank account to Chelsea in the 21st century.
- Real-World Tags
- Georgian Era
- Jane Austen: Charles mentions knowing her.
- Fictional Tags
- Mr. Darcy: Chelsea speculates that Charles may have been who Jane Austen had in mind when she created Mr. Darcy.
Variants
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- Love across Time by David Gray and Brittany Wiscombe, directed by Brian Brough (Amazon, 1 November 2024).
Indexer Notes
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- Debut—Apart from Amazon, we don’t know where else it may have streamed in 2024.