<P> The video for `` Time After Time '' was directed by Edd Griles , and its storyline is about a young woman leaving her lover behind when she becomes homesick and worried about her mother . Lauper 's mother , brother , and then - boyfriend , David Wolff , appear in the video , and Lou Albano , who played her father in the `` Girls Just Want to Have Fun '' video , can be seen as a cook . Portions of the video were filmed at the now - closed Tom 's Diner in Roxbury Township , New Jersey , the intersection of Route 46 and Route 10 and at the Morristown train station . Portions of the video were also shot in front of Betty 's Department Store in Wharton , NJ , which was a staple of the community in the 1970s . According to Lauper , `` It was important to me that we were natural and human in the video . I wanted to convey somebody who walked her own path and did not always get along with everyone and did not always marry the guy . '' The video opens with Lauper watching the 1936 film The Garden of Allah and the final scene , where she gets on the train and waves goodbye to David , has Lauper crying for real . </P>
<P> The video for `` Time After Time '' was directed by Edd Griles , and its storyline is about a young woman leaving her lover behind when she becomes homesick and worried about her mother . Lauper 's mother , brother , and then - boyfriend , David Wolff , appear in the video , and Lou Albano , who played her father in the `` Girls Just Want to Have Fun '' video , can be seen as a cook . Portions of the video were filmed at the now - closed Tom 's Diner in Roxbury Township , New Jersey , the intersection of Route 46 and Route 10 and at the Morristown train station . Portions of the video were also shot in front of Betty 's Department Store in Wharton , NJ , which was a staple of the community in the 1970s . According to Lauper , `` It was important to me that we were natural and human in the video . I wanted to convey somebody who walked her own path and did not always get along with everyone and did not always marry the guy . '' The video opens with Lauper watching the 1936 film The Garden of Allah and the final scene , where she gets on the train and waves goodbye to David , has Lauper crying for real . </P>
movie at the beginning of time after time
movie at the beginning of time after time
The Garden of Allah
The Garden of Allah