The Time Traveler's Wife

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.

Critics largely rejected the adaptation as a muddled, contrived romance that fails to translate the novel's emotional logic to the screen. Audience scores tell a different story — viewers, particularly fans of the book, responded with far more warmth than critics did, suggesting the film works better as comfort viewing than as cinema.