‘Time Traveler’s Wife’ isn’t worth your time

msnbc.com contributorupdated 5:44 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2009 Alonso DuraldeFilm criticA story that works on paper sometimes can’t survive the leap to a literal and three-dimensional screen adaptation, and while I never read Audrey Niffenegger’s best-seller “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” I can only imagine that the scenes of a 40-something man getting chummy with his 6-year-old bride-to-be must have played better in the book. On film, it feels like “To Catch a Time-Traveling Predator.” In the mid-1990s, Claire (Rachel McAdams) is thrilled to finally meet Henry (Eric Bana), the man she’s loved all her life. He, on the other hand, has no idea who she is;…

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