included · Mechanical

The Time Capsule

Erwann Marshall · 105 minutes

In the near future, a politician fresh off an electoral loss escapes to his family's summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn't aged a day.

Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Elise's unequal aging establishes the age-gap romance, while the film concentrates on relationships and Jack's midlife choices rather than further temporal journeys.

Elise returns from a twenty-year space mission without aging, explicitly attributed to time dilation.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan12.7

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance5/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.8/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 31.73 base × 40.0% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Todd Grinnell, Brianna Hildebrand, KaDee Strickland, Baron Vaughn, Ravi Patel

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

4 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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