Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
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- 2 wins & 4 nominations total
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- TriviaThe director Simon Wells is the great-grandson of H.G. Wells, who wrote the 1895 novel upon which the film is based.
- GoofsWhen Alexander pushes his hand through the bubble surrounding his energized time machine, the scene shows his fingernails growing extremely long due to being exposed to accelerated time. A minute later when he shuts down the machine and starts walking around his surroundings, both hands are manicured, again.
- Quotes
Über-Morlock: We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
- ConnectionsFeatured in HBO First Look: The Time Machine (2002)
- SoundtracksSweet Rosie O'Grady
Written by Maude Nugent (as Maude Nugent Jerome)
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Well made but a letdown
Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) is a scientist living in 1899 NYC. He proposes to his girlfriend Emma, but she's killed in a robbery. Four years later, he builds a time machine. However when he tries going back to rescue Emma, she is killed in a different way. Disenchanted, he travels forward in time to 2030 to search for a way to change the past. However he finds nothing about time travel. He jumps forward another 7 years to find the world in collapse and chaos after the moon is destroyed. He tries to use his time machine again but an explosion knocks him out. The machine keeps running until 802,701 AD when he regains consciousness.
The movie works well for awhile, but the future world of Eloi and Morlock is a bit of a letdown. It takes the H. G. Wells world and makes a Planet of the Apes movie out of it. In the end, the well-made movie is let down by this. Also there is an uncompelling action ending. The movie just has nothing profound to say, and is a barely functional action movie.
The movie works well for awhile, but the future world of Eloi and Morlock is a bit of a letdown. It takes the H. G. Wells world and makes a Planet of the Apes movie out of it. In the end, the well-made movie is let down by this. Also there is an uncompelling action ending. The movie just has nothing profound to say, and is a barely functional action movie.
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- Cỗ Máy Thời Gian
- Filming locations
- New England Building, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA(Interior Opening Scene)
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- Budget
- $80,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $56,832,494
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $22,610,437
- Mar 10, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $123,729,176
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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