CLARE has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler—cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry’s travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.
Review
TIME travel is a natural topic for movies. Take a moving picture camera and point it at anything, absolutely anything. Then wait a year or two, or 50 or 100. Eventually, those images will become heartbreaking to somebody. It’s the nature of the medium. In the same way, The Time Traveler’s Wife makes us aware of the ephemerality and preciousness of all things.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
THE dilemma of Henry and Clare becomes, in The Time Traveler’s Wife, a bittersweet love story. If you allow yourself to think for one moment of the paradoxes, contradictions and logical difficulties involved, you will be lost. The movie supports no objective thought.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
THE Time Traveler’s Wife is a romantic, tragic, science fiction hodgepodge of fate. It plays with fantasy conceits to create its very own identity， and free from the binding straps of realism.
