2009 · adventure · fantasy · drama
From Time to Time
Directed by Julian Fellowes1h 35m2009
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
Our read: From Time to Time (2009) reads as a warm, steady, inventive adventure · fantasy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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