About Time

A heartfelt journey through love and loss, where time is both a gift and a burden.

Critics broadly found the film beautifully filmed, sincere, and buoyed by its lead chemistry, while considering its sentimentality, familiar characters, and loose time-travel rules uneven.

• Tim repeatedly travels through his own past to meet Mary, revise proposals, repair social mishaps, and improve family events.
• Tim's relationship with his father, Mary, Kit Kat, Harry, and his daughter gives the time-travel premise its deepest emotional stakes.
• The film moves between the Cornwall coast, London interiors, weddings, and family homes with a gentle, picturesque romantic-comedy sensibility.
• Tim's powers are applied to dates, speeches, friendship, traffic, childbirth, and family time instead of large-scale historical intervention.

• The Time Traveler's Wifeshared romantic time travel premise, sincere sentimentality, and relationship-focused fantasy drama
• Groundhog Dayshared time-loop structure, romantic comedy tone, and emphasis on personal growth through repeated days
• Love Actuallyshared Richard Curtis-style British romantic comedy, ensemble warmth, and wistful reflection on love and family
• The Lake Houseshared fantastical romance, emotional family themes, and bittersweet meditation on mortality

Director

Richard Curtis

Release Date

2013-06-27

Runtime

123 min

Rating

7.9 / 10 (9617)

What is About Time about?

A young London lawyer uses his family's time-traveling gift to pursue love and learn that a perfect life cannot be engineered away from sorrow.

What is About Time like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of About Time as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as easy to follow.

Is About Time violent?

No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in About Time.

What did critics think of About Time?

Critics broadly found the film beautifully filmed, sincere, and buoyed by its lead chemistry, while considering its sentimentality, familiar characters, and loose time-travel rules uneven.

Which films are like About Time?

Films with a similar feel include The Time Traveler's Wife, Groundhog Day, Love Actually, and The Lake House.

How long is About Time?

About Time runs 123 minutes.

Where can I watch About Time?

In United States, About Time streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.