The Time Traveler's Wife

Genre : DVD ( DVD )
Release : 2010/02/09
Price : $15.99

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A genuinely old-fashioned Hollywood romance with a science fiction angle, The Time Traveler's Wife stars Eric Bana as Henry DeTamble, a Chicago librarian with a genetic disorder causing him to travel through time involuntarily. The screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin (My Life), based on a novel by Audrey Niffenegger, incorporates some of those crazy paradoxes that are a part of time-travel fiction, but without beating one over the head. Take Henry's introduction to his future wife, Clare (Rachel McAdams), who tells him they've already met even though they haven't actually met. Brain teasers, however, are not what The Time Traveler's Wife is about. In a quite haunting way, the story really concerns what it means to know and love someone at every phase of his or her life. The fact that Henry's life, from Clare's perspective, is hardly linear--he can disappear and turn back up again at different ages--means that she must cherish what is essential about him. Which doesn't mean the couple is immune to periods of unhappiness, including a painful sequence about trying to bear a child--perhaps a child that might also carry the time-traveling gene.

While there is nothing particularly exciting stylistically about The Time Traveler's Wife, in many ways it has the simple charms and clear emotions of a 1940s weepie assigned by a studio to one of its journeyman, contract directors. (The film was directed by Flightplan's Robert Schwentke.) A couple of supporting players, Arliss Howard (as Henry's father) and Ron Livingston (as Henry's friend), provide even more reason to recommend this movie as a satisfying experience. --Tom Keogh

I'm glad I bought this movie and it's great for anyone who wants a nice romatic movie. But I almost always have trouble with time travel movies because they can do anything they want to the story. Plus inconsistancies in the story are obvious. But it was still an enjoyable movie.

I thought this was a great movie, though a tear jerker. It is very different and you have to be one open to the mysterious to watch it, but all in all I loved it.

this was an excellent movie the story line was great and the actors did a great job something i will enjoy watching over and over very romantic. worth having in your collection.

This is my wife and I's favorite movie right now. Our favorite movie together (romantic) other than this is the notebook for sure. This is probably better I would say. the story is better and the acting is better. But definitely a good movie fro anyone who though the notebook was a good movie and enjoyed it.

Yes, I know. This is a review of the movie. However, the book was excellent. The movie, I'm sorry to report, although good, just doesn't tell the entire story. There's so much that goes on within the mind of the reader that is much easier to cause with the print version than with video. I suspect that because I read the book and, frankly, loved it that I had no difficulty understanding the film version. But, something was left behind in the translation. I can't say the acting wasn't good - but I sensed a lack of intensity. And it isn't lost on me that my opinion may be slanted toward the story told in the book. That's why I'd give the movie 3 1/2 stars. I just can't help wondering if the average viewer truly gets the feeling instilled by fantasizing the story within ones mind. Why not read the book and let me know your opinion.