The Time Traveler's Wife [Blu-ray] [2009]

I am very happy with my purchase & having 3 films in 1 means less to store! I bought particularly for The Time Travellers Wife which is such a well orchestrated story & beautifully told by the main characters, depicting their relationship over a number of years, how tender, loving, patience, understanding is naturally flowing to be together. The Notebook is outstanding in many ways, impactful due to my own personal story, reflected in part by the main characters & my family. The story, characters & events tear at your heart, lifting you ,taking you with them on their adventures through life's twists & turns. I haven't watched My Sister's Keeper but think I saw it years ago, if it's the same one, then it's another good story & good cast

This is romance as it used to be, and I enjoyed it (over and over again) very much. It has become one of my favourites (up there with Close Encounters, Starman, Meet Joe Black and City of Angels).Inevitably, you couldn't possibly have the whole 500+ pages of the book redone as a film, so some material had to be left out. I vote one out of two for this retelling. Firstly, and thankfully, in the book there is a horribly misplaced and unnecessary sex scene on a kitchen table which doesn't appear in the film. I'm no prude, but when I got to that, thankfully, very small part of the book, I was more than a little surprised, because nothing else in the book had that smutty tone. (It was almost as though somebody in the editorial department had said to Niffenegger that they needed just a little spice to help it sell. It was completely out of place, and I was pleased to see that it wasn't shown in the film.)On the minus side, the ending in the book was so, so much better than the film; I had to reread it just to make sure I'd not made it all up.That said, it's a wonderful film, and I'd seriously recommend it to anyone who has a heart and likes a drop of time travel. I'd say as a word of caution to anyone who has neither read the book nor seen the film, that you'd possibly be better off reading the book first, as the time sequences could be a little confusing in the film; the book spells it all out and, after getting used to the presentation, everything seems quite normal.Oddly, even after reading the book, this film left me with one question that I needed answering: whatever happened next with Alba? I know with Starman they made a TV mini series - I felt this could also have been done with this material.

The Time Traveler's (or Traveller's) Wife is undoubtedly a chick-flick. It's enjoyable enough, a little confusing (I kept analysing the timeline of the traveller(s) throughout the film and worrying about matter occupying the same time and space), but ok enough - certainly good for watching with your other half. Do keep the tissues handy though.I am told that the book of the same name is very good and that the film is a good adaptation of it - there are bits missing, but nothing too significant other than one scene in a cage in the middle of a stairwell.When the book was first described to me, I thought the whole thing sounded very dodgy - it sounded like a time traveller grooming a young girl until she became his wife. However, the film did not feel like that, even if analysing it does leave a lingering doubt. Instead, it came across as innocent and romantic, with past events simply occurring in order to finish at a known future point. Admittedly, it was predictable in a confusing timeline sort of way, but still enjoyable enough.

The Time Traveler's Wife is my favorite book. I didn't get around to seeing the film at the time of release and so recently decided to make the purchase despite all of the negative reviews. I can't say I was disappointed.If you're a fan of the book I think the best way to approach the film is without too many expectations. Accept that it will be different and that a lot of the book will have been cut out. It's a complex plot and so I think it's fair to expect that the film may take a different approach and focus only on key points. My advice would be to just take the film for what it is.Personally I enjoyed it and like the book it still had me in tears at the end. Sure it was different, characters were cut out and the structuring was (understandably) different. The film centres mainly upon the love story between Claire and Henry and in my opinion is an honest if not slightly different portrayal of Niffenegger's original novel.Enjoy it and don't get too bogged down with expectations if you're a fan of the book!

I would love someone to remake this and leave in all the things that were in the book that made it such a great book i.e. the adult stuff like sex and violence, etc. Making it as a film for 12 year olds and under ruined it. As for the ending, well? The ending of the book is so far superior..

A fully enjoyable adaptation of the book by Audrey Niffengegger featuring the wife of a man cursed to jump randomly in time. As a love story this is pretty much a perfect film and a good story mainly focussing on how the main couples life is affected by the time jumping. Meeting each other out of order, cheating on her husband with his younger self, a wedding when the groom apparently ages a few decades overnight, trying to have a child - all the everyday things are complicated.The only major niggle is that there is a lot missing, by this I mean both cuts from the book and a lot of other things that could have been included and as a result the film is a tad jumpy pace wise. Although having watched this with someone who hadn't read the book its not as noticeable as one may think.

Three excellent films, however quite old but most enjoyable. I love a romance. You will need a hanky ready for one of the films but very well acted and realistic would highly recommend.