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By Kirk Honeycutt
A shrewd screen adaptation by "Ghost's" Bruce Joel Rubin has put Audrey Niffenegger's novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" on speed dial so that the heart of her time-leaping romance remains intact while all its superfluous details and rudderless characters are jettisoned. It still is an acquired taste as illogic often trumps emotions and, for some at least, the treacle comes on a little too strong toward the end.
A potential lure for female audiences -- and smart counterprogramming against the summer's testosterone-heavy tentpoles -- this
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