God, what a horrible movie. This took me all goddamn day to watch and was supposed to go up yesterday. Leopold (Hugh Jackman) is a penniless 19th century aristocrat forced to choose a wife by his overbearing uncle (Paxton Whitehead). Instead, Leopold ends up following a strange man named Stuart (Liev Schreiber) off the Brooklyn Bridge. Stuart is from the future and Leopold is now a man out of time. Stuart knows that if Leopold doesn't get back and invent the elevator, the entire space-time continuum could be at stake. Unfortunately, Stuart falls down a fucking elevator shaft and breaks his leg, then rants about time travelers so much he's involuntarily committed, leaving Leopold to navigate 21st century New York City with Stuart's downstairs neighbor/ex-girlfriend, Kate (Meg Ryan), an ambitious marketing executive gunning for a big promotion.
Have you filled your BINGO card yet?
Everything about this is horribly cliche. Ryan was the queen of rom-coms in the 90s but this movie surgically removes all her charm for a shrill Diane Keaton-wannabe act while Jackman wanders around with his mouth open like he's just had a head injury. It's currently on Netflix but you should skip it and watch Blast from the Past instead.
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