Kate & Leopold

If you find a dangerous way to pass through time and space to a mysterous ancient place, will you take the risk or not?

Stuart, Kate's ex-boyfriend is the man who finds a space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the 19th Century, taking pictures of everything fancy to him. But he doesn't notice that he is eyed by Leopold, the man who later invented the elevator (which I don't know if it's really true). He follows Stuart to the bridge and falls down to the 21 century together with him by accident. That's how this gentleman bursts into Kate's life and gradually falls in love with her during the week Stuart staying in hospital. His language and behaviors are so incompatible with this modern time but so perfect and charming for Kate to enjoy. Though Kate still doesn't believe Leopold is the man from the past, somehow he had to go back due to the routine of the unmodifiable history, marrying a girl with a good deal of money to save his family. While Kate participating her promotion party, her brother and Stuart rush there pointing at a picture taken when Stuart was at Leopold's family party one hundred years ago. Kate is there too! She is doomed to belong to the past and together with Leopold. They run to the Brooklyn Bridge and Kate, with the help from these two men, successfully catch up with Leopold's pronounce of his future wife. So another happy ending~~


Meg Ryan plays Kate in this film. I don't know whether it's her hair style or her unexpressive face or her not young age which blind my eyes, her performace is out of spirit from my point of view. But I do like the acting and voice of Hugh Jackman, the one who acts Leopold. It seems like the English language and the customs has been simplified a lot within one century time. It's good for people to live faster and more comfortable detaching from the etiquettes, but some, as intangible heritages which I think should be retained as time goes by.

Final review: one thumb up