You’ve heard about a love that transcends centuries. What about a love for which you actually travel across centuries? Kate & Leopold is a pure romance, as unlike Back to the Future as it can get, but it does involve traveling through time.
Kate & Leopold Cast
Written by James Mangold along with Steven Rogers, the movie made nearly $76m in worldwide sales. Viewers picked many hole in the logic of time travel and also pointed to the many historical inaccuracies. However, it is still a romantic movie that you can enjoy on a cold February day.
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber
Kate & Leopold Story
Hugh Jackman … Let me take a deep breath. Hugh Jackman, that handsome, handsome Aussie, is the Duke of Albany. In 1876, he’s created a design for an elevator. Kate lives in current day New York City and is a hot shot marketer. Leopold jumps into a temporal portal and ends up in the 21st century. He meets Kate. Stuart, Kate’s ex, the one who traveled back to 1876, has an accident, but he’s the only one who can send Leo back to his time.
Kate and Leopold meet again and again and fall in love. How will their love survive against time?
Kate & Leopold Review
Hugh Jackman and Meg Ryan give a flawless performance – don’t expect any less from them – and the story has a slightly different twist. Although not a big hit at the time, Kate & Leopold is one of my treasured DVDs.
Here’s one more collection item for Meg Ryan fans. She manages to look as young and as cute as she did in When Harry Met Sally almost 12 years earlier.
Kate & Leopold Trailer
Kate & Leopold Quotes and Dialogues
“Otis always told me love is a leap. Lamentably, I was never inspired to jump.”
~ Leopold
“Theoretically, if you go to the past in the future, then your future lies in the past. This is a picture of you in the future – in the past.”
~ Stuart
“We make cereal crunchier. We make boring movies shorter. We made Smucker’s get the seeds out of their jam. We did that. As far as I’m concerned, we’re heroes.”
~ Kate
“Time. Time, it has been proposed, is the fourth dimension. And yet, for mortal man, time has no dimension at all. We are like horses with blinders, seeing only what lies before us. Forever guessing the future and fabricating the past.”
~ Roebling
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