A pleasant walk through a ghostly garden
Like taking a pleasant walk through a quiet garden on a warm afternoon, Time of Her Life leaves one feeling invigorated and refreshed by its clean and likable characters and beautiful photography. The story moves a wee bit slow compared to some of today's fast-paced overly flashy films, but the charming lead actress does a good job in her roles and helps you to keep connected to what's unfolding. Special effects are "old school" style. Costumes appear to be appropriate for the time period represented. I will say as an archaeologist and historian I found some things slightly off-putting, like the heroine being able to wander around a stately home/museum without escort, and she and the gardener just plowing at the ground in a historic cemetery to dig up a skeleton (with a seam on its skull), but some errors can be forgiven for the sake of a fun and entertaining film, which this is. Any fan of Jane Austin novels or classic ghost stories will enjoy Time of Her Life as much as I did. Kudos...
Time of her Life
Romance, lost love and a scary ghost story. Steven R. Smith's movie Time of her Life has all those elements. Set in modern day with a cross-over into 200 years in the past, which works very well. The film starts off as a suspense thriller and turns into a period romance, Ally discovers links to a tragedy that has created a lovelorn ghost Emmett searching for his lost lady love.The production looks lavish and beautifully shot, located in a Gothic mansion and its grounds. The music score was exceptional.If you like love stories, mysteries,along with ghost stories then this is the movie for you. A real ghost was even caught on camera. Steven did an amazing job of story telling his first time out and the music perfectly fits each scene of the movie and brings in you in the movie as you go on this journey with Ally.Steven has a bright future ahead of him in the film industry.
Time of Her Life is a good clean family ghost film
Time of Her Life is a good clean family film which would probably have younger viewers shouting out 'He's behind you!'. I personally preferred the original opening scenes as found they explained clearly Allys' asthma and that she used an inhaler, and would be interested to know what other viewers think. This film may have been made on a shoestring, or, as Steven M. Smith says... 'low budget/no budget' but that doesn't detract from the fact that it is well made, clearly showing what can be achieved with a little determination and a lot of help from your friends. There are some fantastic scenery shots and I absolutely loved some of the special effects, especially the ghost walking right through Ally! I'm really glad I have the Blooper reel as found some of the outtakes hilarious and had a few laugh out loud moments, which is rare to have with many of the films made today. I hope Steven M Smith has luck with taking his film making further and will be checking out his other films which...
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