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Film Review - The Time Traveler's Wife

Published: October 27, 2009

One of the ways of exploring the realities of love and commitment, happiness and sorrow and loss, is to use the conventions of time travel fantasy. Based on a very popular novel by Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife is firmly in this genre - and many audiences have found that they can have more than a little weep as they watch it and remember it.

If you have surrendered to the basic fantasy and to the characters, then you won't have any difficulty feeling with them. Eric Bana is charming and often bewildered. Rachel McAdams is prettily smiling and sad as the wife. There are friends, helpful doctors and a daughter who also time travels.

For those who have not read the book, this is just another romantically happy and sad tale of love and loss. Apparently, many of those who have read the book have expressed satisfaction that the film captures the essence of the novel. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting (click below for full review)

Starring: Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. Directed by Robert Schwenke.


Rated: M (infrequent violence). 107 mins. Out: November 2.

http://www.catholic.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1383:the-time-travellers-wife&catid=95:film-reviews-2009&Itemid=320

 

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