Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
I remember watching a movie a long time ago. There was this group of time travelers that went from disaster to disaster, watching them as if they were thrill sekekers. I remember the first disaster was a subway wreck.
Anyone know the title of this one?
Timescape (1991). Ben Wilson (Jeff Daniels) is a widower who lives with his daughter (Adriana Richards) in a town in Ohio, where he is building a small hotel. Before the place is finished, the first guests arrive: tourists that introduce themselves as being a group of actors traveling around the country. Actually they are visitors from the future and using a sophisticated time machine - a kind of card that opens 'an entrance' through time - travel as mere spectators of the most horrible disasters and accidents in all ages of the humanity history. They had seen the big earthquake that destroyed San Francisco in 1906, the explosion of Hindenburg in 1937, and many other disasters. They say the can never change history, only observe it. They were there to watch a dramatic fire that would transform that small town into ashes. Ben Wilson realizes what is to happen and he interferes in history avoiding many deaths in the city and also saving his daughter's life by using their time machine.
