The acclaimed best seller "The Time Traveler's Wife" has made it from the bookshelf to the big screen, and premiered at the Ziegfeld Theater in Midtown. The movie stars Eric Bana as a time-traveling husband.

"Well, I had a great time getting to work with Rachel McAdams and Robert Schwentke," says Bana. "It's an amazing novel and we were privileged enough to getting a chance at adapting it and it was an amazing experience."

His wife is portrayed by Rachel McAdams, who related more to Bana's role than to her own.

"I could sort of relate to Henry a bit more than Clare in that respect because because I'm a bit of a gypsy," she says. "I just travel all the time for work and stuff like that I'm sort of uprooted from my life and then sort of plugged back in at odd times."

Executive producer Brad Pitt knows a star when he sees one. One of the stars was just a little girl, Brooklynn Proulx.

Brooklynn Proulx: I'm playing Clare, the young Rachel McAdams. She's very sweet and she likes to be all prettied up.

George Whipple: So it was a big stretch for you. You're really mean and rotten, right?

Proulx: No.

Director Robert Schwentke was a big fan of the book.

"I mean obviously a novel works very differently than a movie does. You have to really transpose it," says Schwentke. "I came to the project as a lover of the book. That was first and foremost what propelled me to make the movie, because I felt like I really understood the story and understood what these people went through and that I could emotionally ground it to a degree where other people could relate to it."

"The Time Traveler's Wife" will be in theaters this weekend.