The Time Traveler’s Wife Clocks In
Posted by The Skyliner on September 2nd, 2009Leasy Sandal
Staff Writer
From Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling novel comes a movie that will be timeless for years to come.
The Time Traveler’s Wife stars Rachel McAdams playing Clare Abshire, a passionate and romantic woman who has been in love with Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) her entire life.
The movie is set in modern day Chicago, yet Henry is constantly moving to different momentous occasions throughout his lifespan. Henry struggles with a genetic disorder that causes him to disappear at the most inopportune moments. As he time travels, Clare waits for him to return to her.
Henry appears to Clare the first time in a meadow behind her childhood home. He is in his mid-forties and she is a child. After he convinces her that he has the ability to time travel, she waits for him to return to the meadow. He comes a few more times, but then Clare waits several years before seeing Henry again.
She bumps into him at a local library one day. The problem is, Henry does not recognize her. He is only in his twenties when they meet again.
Clare allows Henry to see her diary, a detailed list of every visit they have shared in the meadow. He realizes that he has fallen in love with her and proposes. They discover that marriage may be the hardest thing they have done together.
Despite Henry’s unpredictable disappearances, Clare vows to wait for the man she was destined to love.
The movie contains romance and excitement, but make sure you have a box of tissues handy. The tragedy of Henry’s disease will leave viewers emotional towards the end of the movie.
The Time Traveler’s Wife is rated PG-13.
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