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16 December 1992 (USA) moreTagline:
Time waits for no man but true love waits foreverPlot:
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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100 Most Creative People in Business: #14 - Jj Abrams
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Forever Dung? No, but high on the cheese-and-twee content moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Mel Gibson | ... | Capt. Daniel McCormick | |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... | Claire Cooper | |
| Elijah Wood | ... | Nat Cooper | |
| Isabel Glasser | ... | Helen | |
| George Wendt | ... | Harry Finley | |
| Joe Morton | ... | Cameron | |
| Nicolas Surovy | ... | John | |
| David Marshall Grant | ... | Lt. Col. Wilcox USAF | |
| Robert Hy Gorman | ... | Felix | |
| Millie Slavin | ... | Susan Finley | |
| Michael A. Goorjian | ... | Steven | |
| Veronica Lauren | ... | Alice | |
| Art LaFleur | ... | Alice's Father | |
| Eric Pierpoint | ... | Fred | |
| Walton Goggins | ... | Gate MP (as Walt Goggins) |
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Return of Daniel (USA) (working title)The Rest of Daniel (USA) (original script title)
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Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Austria:6 | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Germany:12 | South Korea:15 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Peru:PT | Singapore:PG | Canada:G (Quebec)Fun Stuff
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When Daniel is making phone calls to locate his friend, the phone number that he leaves on the answering machine is 555-2368. That phone number is the same as the one used in Ghost Busters (1984) in their TV commercials. moreGoofs:
Continuity: While Claire is bandaging Daniel's cut hand, her blouse is unbuttoned, buttoned, and unbuttoned several times. moreQuotes:
Nat Cooper: [outside Alice's window, singing] You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy, when skies are gray. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.Alice's Father: Is this some kind of prank?
Nat Cooper: No, sir. No, sir this is very serious. My name is Nat Cooper and I'm in love with your daughter.
Alice's Father: Nat... go home.
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Not the kind of film you expect from Gibson, who specialises in playing reluctant heroes or personality-flawed action types, Forever Young is wholesome, mushy and a little corny - but not altogether unwatchable. It's a time-travel film but doesn't ask you to stretch your sensibilities to believe it might be possible: here Gibson, an airforce officer pining for his comatose girlfriend in 1939, opts to be cryogenically frozen and 'melted' upon her waking. However because of oversight and red tape, his icebox gets stowed away in some dusty old hangar for 60 odd years. You can imagine how shocked he is on his accidental rousing.
The plot of the film then centres around him firstly acclimatizing to the lifestyle and gadgetry of the 1990s, and then to his quest to find his girlfriend Helen - if she's still alive. He's joined and aided by a young boy (Wood) and then his struggling single mother (Curtis) while some zealous military bureacrats get wind of Gibson's character's presence in the present and begin hunting for him. (Having given you all these pointers, I'm sure you could imagine some of the scenes.)
The film is an adequate exploration of the story it offers, though at times it is simplistic and lightweight. Gibson does 'bemused' and 'bewildered' very well, so no problems there, but his level of surprise at 1990s technology is contrived and often insufficient (imagine you were from the 1930s, familiar only with black and white film in cinemas, and you saw a colour TV in a loungeroom - would you simply raise an eyebrow?) The conclusion and resolution, having Gibson rapidly age as he raced to meet his 1930s lover, was also far too convenient and twee - but we must have our happy endings now, mustn't we? It's that type of saccharine drama: sweet but ultimately fake, but if you can swallow that, then watch it by all means.