Time passes irrevocably

Did you remember to set all of the clocks back?

the DVD player (I no longer have a VCR,) the microwave, the automatic coffee pot in the kitchen?

If you’ve already done so, you can watch this and amuse yourself to think about this – the opening shot of the film is an optical illusion. Because the camera and crew would have been seen in the reflection of the mirror had the scene been shot in a conventional manner, there is a body double for Kathleen Turner (only she can be seen from behind in the shot) on the other side of the “mirror,” doing the exact opposite of the star’s movements, giving the illusion that Turner and Helen Hunt are reflections, when in fact they are the real actors in tableau with a body double sitting in front of them with her back to the camera in front of an empty mirror frame, framing a hole in the wall of the set..

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