It's clear almost immediately that screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin - best known for penning unapologetically sentimental flicks like 1990's Ghost and 1993's My Life - is primarily interested in exploring the more overtly maudlin elements within the source material, which ensures that the film will probably be received best by those viewers with a high tolerance for syrupy love stories (ie this is more The Notebook than Timecop).
Adapted by Bruce Joel Rubin from Audrey Niffenegger’s novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife offers the screenwriter the sort of metaphysical material—often romantic—at which he has excelled in pictures like Ghost, My Life, and Jacob’s Ladder.