Toronto First Look at Time Travel Romance ‘Fate’ With Harvey Keitel and Faye Dunaway (Exclusive)

Harvey Keitel (Bugsy, Pulp Fiction), Faye Dunaway (Bonnie & Clyde, Chinatown) and Cheech Marin (Nash Bridges) feature in an exclusive first-look image from the time travel romance movie Fate.

Directed by Jonathan Baker (Lionsgate’s Inconceivable, starring Nicolas Cage, Gina Gershon, and Dunaway), the film, which recently wrapped production in Vancouver, also stars Andrew McCarthy (The Blacklist), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Mena Suvari (Grace and Grit), and Janet Montgomery (Black Swan, Black Mirror).

“After losing his leg in a devastating accident, firefighter Sam Ellis (Routh) enrolls in a unique rehabilitation program at a majestic retreat run by Theodore Deo (Keitel),” according to a synopsis of the film. “There, he discovers the facility’s magical properties when touching a painting transports him to the 1950s, at the height of the Grand Hotel’s opulence. He meets and instantly falls in love with Tilly. Never able to stay long enough, Sam devises a method to extend his time in the past. However, the complications of love and historical events begin to disrupt his present. Learning of a tragic fire that claimed many lives and sealed the hotel’s fate, Sam is propelled into a desperate race against time to alter the past and save his true love.”

Highland Film Group launched the project at Cannes earlier this year and is continuing sales at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).