The Time Traveler's Wife | 
| Director: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston
Studio: New Line
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Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 93
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000095233
UPC: 794043132353
EAN: 0794043132353
ASIN: B001HN69C2
Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 2009
Release Date: February 9, 2010
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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
Product Description
A ROMANTIC DRAMA ABOUT A CHICAGO LIBRARIAN WITH A GENE THAT CAUSES HIM TO INVOLUNTARILY TIME TRAVEL, AND THE COMPLICATIONS IT CREATES FOR HIS MARRIAGE.
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 A great read and a good movie. Just not a great movie. March 12, 2010
William Oterson (About 50 miles, or so, east of Manhattan.)
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.
 Something different March 7, 2010
J. Dykstra (Roswell, NM)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all, I will say that this movie is definitely something different. Obviously it's supposed to be a love story of sorts, but it has such a different background with the time travel premise that it offers something a little different which makes for an interesting viewing experience. As many have pointed out, the time travel aspect is very implausible and not very well explained. You just have to sort of accept it as a premise for the film. The movie begins with great romantic enthusiasm which eventually goes through periods of great frustration and ends with feelings of reluctant acceptance. There were two things that made the movie less than five stars for me. First of all, I think the time travel aspect was quite underdeveloped both in the explanation of it and in the episodes themselves. They seem to happen quickly without much development of what happens during them. Second, I think a number of possibilities go undeveloped such as the potential of changing the future. This is the type of movie in which you expect the happy ending to involve everyone being together in the end through some twist, but it doesn't quite work out that way. In any case, this movie is worth checking out because it's so different. It has a similar feel to the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
 impossible not to sleep March 7, 2010
Eliane T. Goncalves (sao paulo, brazil)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Boring and confusing, cold and slow, and a character who suffers from a disease which sends him back and forth in time. Well, this so-called disease is treated like a genetic problem, but is not travel time related to physics?The guy should have looked for Stephen Hawking for help, not a geneticist...A time traveler would be a fantastic subject of scientic studies but in this slow-motion story Henry, the time traveler, is shown as a poor and unhappy guy, and his apparent gift is treated like a curse. Try not to sleep if you watch it after 9 pm...
Naked Time Traveling March 4, 2010
Ross Landers (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eric Bana is a pretty awesome actor. That and the title of this film, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is an interesting title, especially to sci-fi lovers such as myself. Before I watched this movie I was warned: it is a chick flick. And indeed it was, but it did not try to hide this fact. And a guy can watch a chick flick every now and then!
That being said, for a chick flick, this movie was good. The idea of a man traveling all over time because of some gene defect was interesting enough to keep me watching it all the way to the end (when he time travels his clothes don't go with him though). They also pulled cool little tricks here and there with older Eric Bana taking younger Eric Bana's place.
Around the third and final chunk of the movie (I define chunk as sort of like an arch if you know what I mean) we are introduced to a new important character who is also a time traveler. I found this character to be very interesting and wished they went a little more into her. But they don't really explore that. I guess it would deviate from the romance between the time traveler and his wife which is what the movie focuses on (hence the title), but I found this new character charming and more interesting than the others.
This movie has an underlying theme of "hate the republicans" and "hunting is bad" which I never appreciate in movies. When I watch a movie, I want to have a good ol' time and when there are subliminal political messages attached it sort of ruins it for me.
All in all this was an ok movie, but nothing really to go town about. It was interesting enough to make me watch to the end, but I probably won't watch it a second time. Ever. This film is definitely geared more towards women, so I'd have to recommend this movie to romantic loving women. You may like it if you are a sci-fi guy, but you may not. There is little to no action and too much bickering between couples. Girls like arguing don't they? Could she cut him some slack? He's a time traveler for crying out loud! He can't help it! And when he appears in some unknown time he's naked! Naked in public. That's got to be hard on a person. Also he never time traveled before his life. Maybe the age of the dinosaurs?
Wife: Why weren't you home for dinner!?
Time Traveler: Because I was running from a pack of Raptors. RAPTORS! Do you even know what those are!? Oh and I was naked.
 A nice movie March 3, 2010
MsStudent (Boise)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie was unbelievable. The cast beautiful, wonderful acting but just not enough to keep my interest. No character building...I never understood the attraction. I was always wondering what's the point? At the end, I was still asking myself this.
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