The Time Machine (2002 film)

The Time Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the 1960 film screenplay by David Duncan. It was executiveproduced by Arnold Leibovit and directed by Simon Wells, the greatgrandson of the original author. The film stars Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory and Phyllida Law, and includes a cameo by Alan Young, who also appeared in the 1960 film adaptation.

In the year 1899, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen Guy Pearce is a moderately young inventor teaching at Columbia University in New York City. Unlike his conservative friend David Philby Mark Addy, Alexander would rather do pure research than work in the world of business. After a mugger kills his fiance, Emma, he devotes himself to building a time machine that will allow him to travel back in time and save her. When he completes the machine four years later, he travels back to 1899 and prevents her murder, only to see her killed by a horse and buggy.Alexander goes to 2030 to find out whether Emmas life can be saved. At the New York Public Library, a holographic librarian called Vox 114 insists that time travel is impossible, so Alexander continues into the future until 2037, when the accidental destruction of the moon by space colonists renders the Earth virtually uninhabitable. When he restarts the time machine to avoid falling debris, he is knocked unconscious and travels to the year 802,701, at which point he regains consciousness and stops the machine. ........

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