How to Build a Time Machine

While George Pal's 1960 screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" has garnered innumerable fans, this documentary intertwines the tales of two that saw it as a means of paternal connection; animator Rob Niosi, honoring his usher dad by spending years painstakingly recreating the film's titular prop-and physicist Ronald Mallett, who sought to crack time travel... and forestall the untimely and haunting passing of his own father. 82 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English (SDH); audio commentary; featurettes; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer.