The Time Traveler's Wife

Hey I have to admit that this great story moved me to tears. While the story line takes a bit of suspension of belief, the acting and chemistry displayed by the cast is totally convincing and true to life. Deep love, commitment and devotion are right on the mark, and the cinematography is really good. I will be watching this again with someone I love.

Great to snuggle on the couch and enjoy

Doesn't follow the boons but is still a decent movie.

Itwas kind of confusing when the daughter was talking to an older girl which actually the same person

This is a nicely done film, acted beautifully, photographed with subtle brilliance and edited with a tenderness reserved for bathing an infant. "The Time Traveler's Wife" was a well regarded novel and brilliantly written. Having read the novel first, the movie was a slight let down; nothing could be placed beside Audrey Niffeneger's novel and come out an equal. The subject of time travel is a well visited topic from H.G. Wells to Stephen King, but it is only Niffeneger who has managed to create a plausible frame of time travel and then have it be the white canvas on which a remarkable story is created. The film is by Robert Schwentke, a well respected film maker, and well known. In two hours he tells the story of Henry and Clare. Clare is played by Rachel McAdams, who has prepared this role with an Oscar level proffesionalism. Henry is played by Australian actor (with a flawless American accent) Eric Bana. At age six, Henry survives a car accident that kills his mother. It also triggers a neurological malfunction which causes him to jump time-only within the span of his life- with no warning and no control. He meets and falls in love with Clare. Though because her time is linear and his is not, an already deeply in love Clare sees Henry in a library and overwhelms him with the thrill of finally seeing him. She knows him because he has been visiting her since she was six, helping to guide her, so she is ready and waiting for him. Henry knows things about their future and tries his best to protect Clare, but Henry's life is hard and frustrating, always anxious to get back to her. The editing, make-up and acting through their wedding is remarkable. In that one day we see Henry as young as 23 and as old as 41. When Henry goes, leaving Clare to wait, sometimes for years, his clothing remains behind, losing shape and weeping to the floor. It's a visual that beautifully reflects the let down that Clare feels. Henry appears, naked, at another time, in all kinds of weather, immediately facing the challenges of being an outlaw. When they have a child (who has inherited this genetic code but has more control over it) Henry takes her aside and quietly tea hes her to cope- from lock picking to how to learn WHEN she is. No more details are needed except to tell you this is a story about the challenges involved in a relationship. There are both disadvantages and advantages to this malady and they are explored without taking away from the purpose of the film: love. Some may call this a "date movie" but their eye isn't as good as mine. There are details to this film that put it on a level far above a "chick flick" or a "sci-fi geek" film, despite having elements of both. The film score by Mychael Danna, is glorified in the hands of Nicholas Dodd, who did the orchestrations and conducted. The music is used to maintain a thread of story line when Henry jumps from 1987 to 2002; then musical idony and foreshadowing is clever and abundant. Again, many won't notice the music. An autumn pasture is an integral setting and the colors of that set are used through the film, like a painting. This is a subtle film and well made so the millions of remarkable details blend together to wash over us and gently lead us along with the story. It works: at no time do we wonder, "How did they DO that?" or, "Great make up cause three seconds ago he had no gray hair and wasbclean shaven". Nothing is overdone so nothing breaks the spell. Is this a remarkable piece of art? No. But we don't always want to see "The Hours" or "Silence of The Lambs" or "Sophie's Choice." Sometimes we want to be able to converse without a lump in the throat or a recurring image of a dry well in a basement. Buy the film. You do need to seek out the details and enjot the discoveries that multiple viewings will bring.

There were times in the movie they were able to grasp a little of the feel of the book, but I felt like huge elements were left out completely that were very vital to the story. Clare's long red hair was a huge part of the book and in the movie it was mostly shorter and dark. Gomez was supposed to be blond, he also was in love with Clare and they had a brief relationship before Clare met Henry in real time. Henry's hair was long and black for much of the book and their daughter, Alba, ironically (ironic because Alba means white!) had jet black hair and looked just like Henry but the movie doesn't capture that at all. I was also sad that Kimy (Richard's neighbor and friend of the family) was completely left out as she was a huge part of the story. It wasn't clear in the movie that Henry was trying to teach Clare to cook before he died because her not knowing how to cook is a reoccurring and often mentioned theme. I also felt like the acting was a bit stiff and fake at times and got tired of them petting each other's faces so much, haha! I wish it were a little longer so they could have taken the time to develop key parts. I also was bummed how they changed the parts with the doctor Kendrick so much, not even mentioning his family and Down syndrome son--that is how he believed Henry, not because he told him he'd win the grant money. I also wished it showed more of the internal struggle both Henry and Clare went through when it came to the lottery ticket. He did it for her so she would have a bigger working space and she was very torn and conflicted. It also didn't mention that Clare had 6 miscarriages before finally conceiving Alba and it was Kendrick that figured out the fetus was time traveling and ending in miscarriages and that they figured it out by him studying and sequencing Henry's genetic code and then creating time traveling mice. I was also bummed that it didn't show that in the future when Alba is 10, the genetic disorder of time traveling is an acknowledged disorder and people believe it. I did like how the movie doesn't have the foul language the book has and that the movie isn't as graphic as the book.

Spoiler alert!!!It is a good film, but, I just don’t get it. There’s a lot of questions. Why does he time travel? How/when did his time travelling start? Maybe I’m looking too close into the reasons of this film. However, it is a nice film to watch, and for such an emotional person, in this one, I didn’t get emotional with the characters. I also knew that he wasn’t really dead, he could still come back, after death. This is why I gave up on the tv series that’s just come out, I just didn’t get the point of it.

I am very happy with my purchase & having 3 films in 1 means less to store! I bought particularly for The Time Travellers Wife which is such a well orchestrated story & beautifully told by the main characters, depicting their relationship over a number of years, how tender, loving, patience, understanding is naturally flowing to be together. The Notebook is outstanding in many ways, impactful due to my own personal story, reflected in part by the main characters & my family. The story, characters & events tear at your heart, lifting you ,taking you with them on their adventures through life's twists & turns. I haven't watched My Sister's Keeper but think I saw it years ago, if it's the same one, then it's another good story & good cast

A man is born with a rare ability to time travel and meets his wife as a child. A heartbreaking weepie, this is a very enjoyable old fashioned romantic drama with a scifi twist as a man somehow travels back in time leaving behind in the present day the woman he loves who he meets as a child on one of his trips. Very good performances from Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams.

This is romance as it used to be, and I enjoyed it (over and over again) very much. It has become one of my favourites (up there with Close Encounters, Starman, Meet Joe Black and City of Angels).Inevitably, you couldn't possibly have the whole 500+ pages of the book redone as a film, so some material had to be left out. I vote one out of two for this retelling. Firstly, and thankfully, in the book there is a horribly misplaced and unnecessary sex scene on a kitchen table which doesn't appear in the film. I'm no prude, but when I got to that, thankfully, very small part of the book, I was more than a little surprised, because nothing else in the book had that smutty tone. (It was almost as though somebody in the editorial department had said to Niffenegger that they needed just a little spice to help it sell. It was completely out of place, and I was pleased to see that it wasn't shown in the film.)On the minus side, the ending in the book was so, so much better than the film; I had to reread it just to make sure I'd not made it all up.That said, it's a wonderful film, and I'd seriously recommend it to anyone who has a heart and likes a drop of time travel. I'd say as a word of caution to anyone who has neither read the book nor seen the film, that you'd possibly be better off reading the book first, as the time sequences could be a little confusing in the film; the book spells it all out and, after getting used to the presentation, everything seems quite normal.Oddly, even after reading the book, this film left me with one question that I needed answering: whatever happened next with Alba? I know with Starman they made a TV mini series - I felt this could also have been done with this material.

The Time Traveler's (or Traveller's) Wife is undoubtedly a chick-flick. It's enjoyable enough, a little confusing (I kept analysing the timeline of the traveller(s) throughout the film and worrying about matter occupying the same time and space), but ok enough - certainly good for watching with your other half. Do keep the tissues handy though.I am told that the book of the same name is very good and that the film is a good adaptation of it - there are bits missing, but nothing too significant other than one scene in a cage in the middle of a stairwell.When the book was first described to me, I thought the whole thing sounded very dodgy - it sounded like a time traveller grooming a young girl until she became his wife. However, the film did not feel like that, even if analysing it does leave a lingering doubt. Instead, it came across as innocent and romantic, with past events simply occurring in order to finish at a known future point. Admittedly, it was predictable in a confusing timeline sort of way, but still enjoyable enough.