# Help me ID a time travel movie

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**Created:** [December 18, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781 "2015-12-18T16:18:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/21 "2015-12-23T00:04:59Z")

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Nos in any event. He further say the scruffy guy has dirty blond hair and a “Don Johnson” beard.

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**Author:** ![phreak9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@phreak9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreak9)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/22 "2015-12-24T08:01:38Z")

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There is one from the 90’s called Dead Again or something. It has Emma Thompson in it i think. There is also an indie movie called Primer that got some hype on Sundance and IFC channels and could have popped up on syfy.

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**Author:** ![phreak9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@phreak9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreak9)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/23 "2015-12-24T08:03:58Z")

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12 Monkeys?

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**Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/24 "2015-12-24T08:08:35Z")

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Did it have Ethan Hawke in it?

On the subject, a low(ish) budget TT movie I really love is Triangle. It’s even better the second time!

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**Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/25 "2015-12-25T02:32:05Z")

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How about [_Millennium_,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(film)) the film not the TV show. Starred Kris Kristofferson (scruffy looking) and Cheryl Ladd…

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**Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/26 "2015-12-25T22:47:47Z")

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> [@White SIFL](#):
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> Did it have Ethan Hawke in it?
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> On the subject, a low(ish) budget TT movie I really love is Triangle. It’s even better the second time!

_Triangle_ is definitely worth checking out.

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**Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/27 "2015-12-25T22:53:59Z")

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Maybe looking at some of these pages will help find the answer.  
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Time\_travel\_films](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Time_travel_films)

> **[Time Travel Movies - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058641508/)**
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> Time Travel Movies

> **[Every Time Travel Movie Ever, Ranked](https://gizmodo.com/every-time-travel-movie-ever-ranked-1682363164)**
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> With the release of yet another time travel movie this week (Terminator Genisys), it’s time for us to look back at the great time travel movies of our past. Here are all the major time travel movies ever, ranked.

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**Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-time-travel-movie/740781/28 "2015-12-25T23:03:33Z")

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> [@phreak9](#):
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> There is one from the 90’s called Dead Again or something. It has Emma Thompson in it i think.

Wasn’t that more about reincarnation? Ken Brannagh and Emma Thompson play a married couple in the 1940s, she gets murdered, he gets executed for it, then 50 years later they’ve been reincarnated and look exactly the same with limited fleeting memories of the former lives and the pattern starts to repeat…

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