The Time Traveler and The Wife (2009)| Friday Night Special - Friday Night Special is a special feature of Oswald's Screen Scene. Here we present reviews of movies that we feel may be of particular interest to those special lovers looking for that magical mood-setter of a date flick that just might ignite the passions bubbling under the surface during the last work day of the week. Is this "The One"? Or just "One of Those Things?" Let us be your guide! Review Have you ever wished you could just disappear in the middle of an argument with your significant other? Eric Banana ("The Day They Shot the Olympics") does just that in Anton Litvak's charming and insignificant trifle of a sci-fi love story. Banana plays Haven Mergatroyd (get it?), an architect who, for no particular reason, occasionally spazzes out and travels through time. Litvak ("The Shop On The Corner") handles this odd affliction with sensitivity - referring to it only obliquely as a "disease." Love interest MacAdam ("Under Atlantis") pouts and frets while the hubby is away, writing down conversations with a Sharpie on every bit of blank skin, trying to keep track of who last said what so that the moment the bonehead returns they can pick up where they left off. This creates such odd juxtapositions as Banana complaining to MacAdam that his "space stick" is stale... in 1995! Of course you've seen this all before (remember?), but don't let that stop you from "traveling" to your local theater and sucking the delicious cherry filling from this frothy bonbon! Chewbacca says "hairy thumbs up!" | |
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