2009 · drama · romance · fantasy
The Time Traveler's Wife
Directed by Robert Schwentke1h 47m2009
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Our read: The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) reads as a warm, steady, inventive drama · romance · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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