the time traveler wife ( pg 13 and 1 represent46 )  sf and 2nd string and original and osit romanticsthis be the movie that benjamin button aspire to be . it the tale of an unusual man and a man who do not experience time the way everybody else do and and of the woman who love him anyway . unlike button and their sheer humanity and love of life make u actually care . clearly sf and the time traveler wife have none of the superficiality of character all too common to the genre while indeed and it a sincere and genuine a love story a you will ever find in the movie . the time traveler be not the unnamed edwardian era protagonist of h. g. well the time machine . in fact and this one have a name  henry detamble  and he live in some vaguely contemporary time period . a the movie open and we seem him at age 6 and happily sing jingle bell while rid in a car drive by his mother thru a driving rainstorm . their car get clip and henry get bang up a bit and and the shock trigger his 1st time jump . mere second later and he return to the side of the road and watch horrify a his mother and frantically twist around to search the back seat for her suddenly miss son and fail to see the big truck bear down on her . and moment after that and his future self ( eric bana ) arrive to assure him that thing will get well . it be leave to the viewer to imagine how henry must have felt about his own role in his mother death . we learn that he doesn not have much control over when he will dematerialize and except that it often seem to be trigger by stress or excitement and so we can imagine the effect this would have on his love life . and he sometimes go for week at a time with no believable excuse and so this give u a clue about his job security . thus it no surprise that he a bit of a mess when and work his chicago job a a research librarian and he approach by clare abshire and a woman he never see before and who profess that she be in love with him for decade  and that it be mutual . how messed up be he . well and he stand there with rachel mcadams  omg . rachel mcadams .  aim that beautiful smile and those big eye right at him and and he try to find excuse to back away . fortunately for him and the story and she manage to overcome his hesitation . we learn a very few thing about time travel . henry can travel to time outside of his own lifetime and but most often he show up at time and place that occur on his own personal lifeline thru the 4 dimensional space time monobloc . it only his body that make the trip and which mean that usually his 1st task on arrival be find clothes . there apparently a genetic ( not mechanical or quantum ) basis for his ability ( or affliction ) and and this lead him to seek aid from dr. david kendrick . in a moment reminiscent of transparent aluminum and henry informs dr. kendrick that future scientist will know him a the inventor of the phrase chrono displacement while the few other paradox be equally subtle . but the movie isn not so much about time travel a it be about henry and clare profound and endure love for each other under try circumstance . not since christopher reeve pin away forlornly for jane seymour in somewhere in time ( 1980 and haunt theme by john barry ) have this theme be do so well in sf . henry and clare and and their star cross relationship take up most of the screen time . but and like a diamond set off by small jewel and mcadams and bana be surround by exquisite little gem from the support performer and notably brooklynn proulx a young clare and the mccann sister and hailey and tatum and a their dotter alba at age 10 and 5. no film be perfect and and this one isn not either and but i have to single out one niggle detail that keep distract me thruout this movie and most other one that eric bana have appear in . it this represent somebody should introduce the guy to either a razor or the concept of a beard . i do not care how devoted rachel mcadams be to you and if you look like youre always come off a perpetual hangover and it gon na wear off .