Rating: PG13
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 11/26/2003(USA)
Release Date: 04/13/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Directing his first film since 1998's
Lethal Weapon 4,
Richard Donner helmed this big-budget adaptation of
Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Featuring a script by first-time screenwriter
George Nolfi,
Timeline begins in France in the near future. A group of students from Yale are there studying a medieval site, when their professor, played by
Billy Connolly, mysteriously goes missing. To make matters more enigmatic, the students are then taken back to the United States by a shadowy technology company called ITC, led by
Robert Doniger (
David Thewlis). The eccentric
Doniger explains that because of a machine that his company built, their professor is trapped in 14th century France. In order to rescue him, two of the students,
Chris Hughes (
Paul Walker) and
Kate Erickson (
Frances O'Connor), along with
Andre Marek (
Gerard Butler), an archeological site manager, must travel to France, circa 1357, amid archaic war, deadly diseases, and other unexpected pitfalls. Meanwhile,
David Stern (
Ethan Embry), a third student, stays behind to keep an eye on the shady
Doniger.
~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
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