Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel hits cinemas this week and follows three social outcasts; two geeks and a cynic, as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.
This triggers the start of a series of accidental trips back and forth through time, during which our heroes frantically try to avoid multiple earlier versions of themselves, to avoid creating a time paradox, in an attempt to unravel the mystery of just who is trying to kill them and why.
So here at FemaleFirst we took a look at some of cinema's best time travel movies that have been released over the years.
Back to the Future
Back to the Future was a film franchise that spanned three movies and is perhaps what actor Michael J Fox is best known for.
The films the adventures of high school student Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) as they use a modified DeLorean automobile to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California.
The first movie, which was released in 1985 was a massive international success, going on to be the highest grossing movie of the year.
It wasn't long before a sequel was in the pipeline and the second and third movie in the franchise came in 1989 and 1990.
The Time Machine
1960's science fiction release The Time Machine was the big screen adaptation of H.G Wells'1895 novel of the same name.
In Victorian England, an impassioned scientist creates an invention that can shoot him back and forth in time, all the way to the year 800,000 where he finds humanity divided into two different tribes.
The film came to cinema screens again in 2002 when it was remade starring Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons. The film was also directed by Simon Wells, who is the great-grandson of the original author.
Planet of the Apes
Starring Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes was released back in 1969 and followed three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves. The stunned trio discovers that these highly intellectual simians can both walk upright and talk.
They have even established a class system and a political structure. The astronauts suddenly find themselves part of a devalued species, trapped and imprisoned by the apes.
But one, Taylor, manages to break out and, aided by a pair of compassionate chimps, makes his escape to an uninhabited section of land.
The film was ground breaking for it's prosthetic makeup techniques and it has gone on to become a classic in this genre of film.
The movie was remade back in 2001 by Tim Burton and starring Mark Wahlberg and Tim Roth. While the movie was considered a financial success it failed to win over the critics and lovers of the original.
Time Bandits
Terry Gilliam wrote, produced and directed Tim Bandits fantasy movie Time Bandits in 1981 starring John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm and Michael Palin.
A boy and six good-natured little persons careen through time-twisting interactions with Napoleon, Robin Hood, and Agamemnon, among others, with a map the little people stole from their employer, the Supreme Being.
But their intention is to rob their way through the past, which does not make their boss happy. Meanwhile, Evil is after the map in order to become the Supreme Being himself.
Twelve Monkeys
1995 brought a second Terry Gilliam movie in the form science fiction flick 12 Monkeys starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. Penal colony prisoner James Cole must travel back in time from the year 2035 to find the cause of a virus that killed five billion people in 1997.
Cole's trip into the past won't be easy. For starters, he winds up in the wrong year on his first attempt. Once, as he time-travels, Cole ends up a prisoner in an insane asylum in 1990.
There, he meets psychiatrist Kathryn Railly and inmate Jeffrey Goines, who could hold the key to the epidemic's spread.
Cole later winds up in the middle of a World War I battlefield. After meeting James for a second time, in another year, Dr. Railly gets further involved in his quest. Although she thinks at first that Cole must be crazy, Kathryn soon starts to believe him and attempts to help.
The film was a hit critically and commercially and Pitt was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.
Other time travel movies include Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home and The Butterfly Effect.
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel is released 24th April
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