UNFOLDING over the course of 35 years, The Time Traveler’s Wife recounts a heartbreaking romance between two people who were always destined to meet and fall in love.
Unusually, one is a time traveller who vanishes without warning – and then reappears minutes, hours, weeks or sometimes years later.
The film opens in the late 1960s, when five-year-old Henry DeTamble first experiences time travel, dematerialising from the back seat of his parents’ car shortly before a truck ploughs into the vehicle, killing his mother Annette.
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The boy’s father is consumed by grief and Henry becomes estranged from the old man.
Working as a librarian in Chicago, Henry (Eric Bana) meets a beautiful artist called Clare (Rachel McAdams).
Fulfilling destiny, Henry and Clare fall in love.
The Time Traveler’s Wife wrings almost as many tears as Niffenegger’s book, building to a harrowing finale that proves while love defies class, religion, age and social status, it cannot completely transcend time.
The central pairing generates plentiful sparks of sexual chemistry.
McAdams is particularly good in a role that runs the gamut of human emotion.
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