This is my cell phone id for my house. Since no one but Nicky calls me from there, I thought it was sweet. Nick's cell id is the dialog between Leia and Han about being a scoundrel...but that is a whole another post....
I'm a sucker for GOOD love stories..(Braveheart, Shakespeare in Love, Becoming Jane...etc.) So it really shouldn't have been a surprise that I enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife, but it kind of was! I have been disappointed of late with the lack of "believable" romance in movies. I know, I know...time travel is not really what most people would call believable, but somehow it worked.
I have a theory..even if the story is not credible, as long as you have characters/actors that make you can care about them it will almost always work. That is what this story has going for it. Henry (Eric Bana)and Claire (Rachel McAdams) DeTamble are very much in love and not by any choice of their own. Claire meets Henry when she is six and he is thirty-six. Henry is a research librarian (like him already, right???) who has a genetic anomaly that allows him to travel to certain important times in his life. It is kind of hard to explain, but suffice it to say, unlike Dr. Sam Beckett, he can never change anything. No matter what he does or who he talks to, he has no control over the future. So his death is inevitable and unchangeable, but he sees it happening. Sometimes he shows up older with a little gray and sometimes he shows up younger with a little longer hair. On his wedding day, young Henry "leaps" out and is replaced by older Henry with graying temples and the reaction of the wedding guests is kinda cute.
This story is hard to sum up or explain without giving the whole movie away, but you see the difficulty that they face and the love it takes to overcome it all. So..... if you are in a mood for a nice cryfest, this is your movie.
Little side note, Eric Bana looks really good at any age!!
