There are lots of movies about time travel, from the asinine Land of the Lost to the political The Time Machine and Sleepers, to the edgy Time Bandits and 12 Monkeys. Most of those have a gizmo or contraption that causes them to travel through time, but what if you just “hopped” without having any control over it? One minute you were in contemporary Manhattan then in the blink of an eye you were in Los Angeles in the middle of a Vietnam war protest march?
Henry works as a research librarian at a public library in Chicago, though presumably he has frequent absences from work as he time travels without any ability to control it. His travels all seem to be somehow related to his own history, however, and indeed at one point in the film he observes “I often go back to the same places, to places that are important to me, it’s kind of like gravity or something.”

What part of fantasy, don’t you critics understand? That’s why they are called FANTASY!! Damn it!! What is the point of a fantasy, if you criticize it for being, a fantasy!? I’m sick and tired, of GOOD fantasy movies, coming out, and stupid critics, like you, keep trying to make sense of it!! Fantasy is NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE!! Fantasy films is part of imaginations, that is brought to life on the big screen. If there were such thing as time travel, then I can see you picking it apart. Fantasy also asks the rhetorical question of, “what if?”. Yet, you idiot critics always try to answer it!! When, are you guys, going to learn, that fantasy, only needs criticism of it’s artistic value? And give credit where credit is due? You critcs are showing how stupid modern man is!!
Fantasy films aren’t supposed to make sense? Uhm, we must be watching different fantasy films, Y9Power. I have seem experimental movies that are deliberately narrative-free or occur in what seems like a random tlmeline, but really, it sounds like you’re talking more about a sequence of pretty visuals. Do you think that a fantasy world needs to be internal consistent, for example?
If you look at historical fantasies, fairy tales and myths, you’d find that all of the ones that have stayed with us *do* have that internal consistency and *do* make sense.
Hmmm….