Forever Young [P&S]

Director: Steve Miner Steve Miner

Overview

In this three-hanky romantic melodrama, a test pilot, distraught over the death of his girlfriend, volunteers to be a subject in a risky experiment and allows himself to be cryogenically frozen for 12 months. The year is 1939 and he is to come out in 1940. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and he is forgotten. Fifty years later, a pair of kids find the remains of the test facility and thaw him out. He comes out just fine and ends up having a wonderful effect on the lives of one of the kids and his attractive single mother while trying to adjust his new world. The sad part comes when he learns that his lover from long ago was only in a coma and fully recovered.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/08/2009
UPC:	0883929084777
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	12,073

Special Features

Closed Caption; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mel Gibson	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
Robert Hy Gorman	Felix
Millie Slavin	Susan Finley
Steve Hinton	Boy with Ice Cream
Veronica Lauren	Alice
Art LaFleur	Alice's Father
Eric Pierpoint	Fred
Amanda Foreman	Debbie
John Cullum	Actor,Frank
Karla Tamburrelli	Blanche
Carla Tamburrelli	Blanche
Robert Munns	Wrong Harry
Ava Lazar	Waitress at Diner
Richard Ryder	Pilot at Airshow
Michael Briggs	Pilot at Airshow
Kenny Ransom	Officer at Warehouse,Actor
Jared Chandler	Officer at Warehouse
Jon Menick	Doctor at Airfield
Paul Ganus	Airbase Personnel
Jason Iorg	Airbase Personnel
Mary Ellen Moore	Ticket Woman
Miriam Beesley	Woman at Picnic
Lisa Savage	Woman at Picnic
Cody Burger	Boy at Picnic
Dean Hallo	Man at Picnic
Greg Allan Martin	Man at Picnic
Joel McKinnon Miller	Man at Picnic
William Marquez	Doctor at Hospital
Michael A. Goorjian	Steven
Steve Hinton Jr.	Boy with Ice Cream
John Bourg	Daniel (age 11)
Ara Maxwell	Helen (age 11)
Walton Goggins	Gate MP
Jason Rainwater	Actor
Jerry Goldsmith	Composer
Steve Miner	Actor

Technical Credits

Bruce Davey

J.J. Abrams

Steve Miner	Director
Bruce Davey	Screenwriter,Producer
Edward S. Feldman	Executive Producer,Producer
Tom Chesney	Special Effects
Dane A. Davis	Sound Effects
Avram D. Gold	Sound Effects
Tommy Goodwin	Sound Effects
J.J. Abrams	Executive Producer,Producer,Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

A romantic fantasy along the lines of Spielberg's Always with a dash of boy's adventure and science fiction film thrown in for good measure, it has little new to offer, but is saved to some extent by the charm of its leads. The story, about a WWII-era test pilot (Mel Gibson) who is awakened in the present by two young boys, after allowing himself to be frozen in an early cryogenic experiment, invokes the familiar theme of the man who needs to be reincarnated to learn how to love. The film's second act centers on the pilot's attempt to understand what's happened to him with the help of a young boy (Elijah Wood) and his widowed mother (Jamie Lee Curtis). Despite the need to hit plot points, these scenes are well-written and played by Gibson and Curtis with such warmth and naturalness that they could form the core of a better film. Even the utterly predictable ending is rendered watchable by Gibson's affecting performance.