John Hurt is Dr. Joe Buchanan, a U.S.
researcher of the year 2031, stuck in the middle of a dimension-busting wartime particle-beam exchange. After a near-miss, Buchanan is sucked into a time vortex along with his talking, nuclear-powered automobile. Finding himself stuck in 19th-century Switzerland, Buchanan impresses young author Mary Shelley (Bridget Fonda) with a cruise in his futuristic love-mobile.
But the plot thickens as our hero realizes he's driving between twin realities: the original past in which Shelley is merely writing the novel Frankenstein and a place just down the road where the monster is real. The film's scariest moment: ageing Hurt pitching woo to a teenaged Mary.
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