If you can willingly suspend your disbelief at its premise, you will find yourself moved at this love story for the ages
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
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Reviews Counted:148
Fresh:56
Rotten:92
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Though it may satisfy fans of the novel, The Time Traveler's Wife's plot contrivances and illogical narrative hamper its big screen effectiveness.
Theatrical Release:Aug 14, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $63,387,284
Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book about a love that transcends time. Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows... [More]
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Arliss Howard
Director: Robert Schwentke
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The unusual circumstances enable quite a bit of humor and mystery, but they also seriously cut down on the film's relevance.
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The question of her own "free will" niggles at the edges of Clare's experience throughout the movie named for her.
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It's sort of soft-core porn for pederasts who are into sci fi.
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She's willing to put up with a dude who disappears on a whim and leaves her alone for days and weeks on end? Sure, when he comes back he's naked and looks like Eric Bana, but still.
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Like Henry, there are elements from the best-selling book that have simply disappeared. Humor, for one. A deeper texture. This is less of a movie than it is a glammed-up revolving door.
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Fascinating would be the best word to describe The Time Traveler's Wife.
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Two good performances, some expert cinematography from Florian Ballhaus and an air of intensity that keeps you gripped.
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Competent and well-cast, but it crams too much into the runtime and loses the elegance of the novel.
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Another time-travel drama that doesn't make a lick of sense, but die-hard romantics won't mind.
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[W]ill linger in your imagination just as the novel did... [A]chingly romantic but never schmaltzy and never less than charming and surprising...
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Crystallized by the functional - rather than fantastic - turns by its two leads, The Time Traveler's Wife never really takes flight. While the film makes a decent enough date movie, you'll find it will disappear from your mind before too long.
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Despite the saccharine trailer and the icky tear-jerking pedigree, The Time Traveler’s Wife is actually a movie of some substance. it is the film about disconnected love that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button should have been.
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The tasty nuggets of fun drown in all the soupy seriousness, but this time travel is sometimes an interesting ride.
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It wants desperately to engage our hearts, but for long stretches will leave most of us scratching our heads.
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...one of the most moving and flat-out indelible love stories to come around in quite some time.
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A thoroughly engaging film. The heavy emotional tone makes it feel a bit girly, but it's still a terrific story.
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As powerful as a time-machine made Blue Peter-style out of cardboard and empty bottles.
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A suspension of disbelief is essential, but – if you can sideline the illogical nature of the plot – what emerges is an intimate and moving love story.
08/14/09
You’d go mad unpicking the paradoxes in this convoluted brain scrambler. (If you thought Schwentke’s Flightplan was bonkers, try this one on for size.) Better to surrender to its implausibilities and revel in the lush, sudsy silliness of it all.
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