Love this movie! It has to be one of the best romantic movies I have watched in a long time! I would love to find out how to download the music IN THE MOVIE! I listened to the soundtrack and it doesn't include that beautiful music playing in the background! I know that the composer is Bob Cobert but cannot find the music! Does anyone know where to get it? I enjoy watching fictional love stories which I believe this is! I thought that the acting was fantastic and very heart warming. It has a great ending but I won't tell in detail because I don't want ruin and spoil the ending! I have a deep interest in antiques so the part of the movie regarding the old antique desk fascinated me. The Civil war scenes were wonderful!

J Henerson faced an interesting challenge - how to turn an atmospheric, introspective short story into a usable TV-length screenplay. To his credit, he managed it, though not without a certain loss of character. Jack Finney's tale was set in New York City - specifically Brooklyn as of the present day, and as of 1889, when it was a very different place indeed - a place of huge shade trees and wide sidewalks and large, gracious houses. The screenplay tossed all that overboard for a story set forty years before in a vaguely-defined New England locale represented entirely by the one house we see.The other bad news was the casting: I can only assume that Jennifer Jason Leigh was both available and inexpensive, for nothing else could have recommended her. Nothing about the character suggests she is malnourished and consumptive, yet that is exactly how Miss Leigh appears - far too skinny for the times, wan and tired-looking. Ironically, the lovely Kali Rocha, who played her sister (yet who looks nothing remotely like her!) was far closer to the story's original description, and closer to the norm of 19th century femininity. (See "Gods and Generals.") Daphne Ashbrook, on the other hand, as the "woman of the 90s," looked and played the part perfectly - hard, clashing, angular and clueless. Her only false note was when she meekly departed from the leading man's life without seeking legal damages or showing any other shrewish, vindictive behavior - leaving him free to pursue a modern-day Jennifer Jason Leigh, sunken-eyed and anorexic, looking even more ill than she did before.In all other ways, though, this was a workmanlike production; J Henerson did an excellent job of recreating 19th-century language, both written and spoken, and Dorothy Amos' 19th-century costumes were wonderfully done.Nonetheless, given the choice of introductions, I would recommend Jack Finney's original story over this - it is beautifully written and leaves no loose ends hanging.

***Possible Spoilers Ahead*** I cannot believe that so many people are missing the mark when it comes to the subtext of this amazing story. There is no "unfaithfulness" implied at the cemetery scene in the end, because Scott has found the reincarnation of Lizzy. He had known her in a previous life as Colonel Denby, and now, just at the moment in which he accepts her death in the 19th century, he meets not a "descendant" but his reincarnated lost love. This is exactly why the Civil War flashback was included, not to give the lead actors a chance to work together, but to show their previous relationship in a past life. 20th century Lizzy is not cheap and shallow, she's a 20th century woman meeting a stranger whilst walking her dog, and inviting him out for a cup of coffee. There's no need for depth in an everyday scene such as this, because that would only detract from the power of this unexpected twist. If you don't understand what's intended by Jack Finney's original story and Dan Curtis' adaptation, you're missing the real beauty of this Hallmark production.

If, like me, you like books, stories or movies that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up or/and you have a romantic streak; if you like movies that employ the 'time-travel' device, such as the classic SOMEWHERE IN TIME; then this movie is definitely for you. Based on the wonderful Jack Finney short story of the same name from his collection I LOVE GALESBURG IN THE SPRINGTIME (also in ABOUT TIME), the screenplay has been 'stretched', logically and positively, to include additional material to make a fully-fleshed movie. Well directed and well acted, a couple of hours spent viewing this movie will enthrall you and you'll almost certainly want to watch it several times.