Forever Young (1992)

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying... See full summary »

Director:

Steve Miner

Writer:

J.J. Abrams

Stars:

Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood

Cast

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)

Storyline

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

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Plot Keywords:

love | cryogenics | pilot | best friend | test pilot | 

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Taglines:

Time waits for no man but true love waits forever

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Genres:

Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for some language and domestic conflict

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 December 1992 (USA)

Also Known As:

Return of Daniel

Filming Locations:

Claremont, California, USA

Box Office

Gross:

$55,956,200 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros, Icon Entertainment International

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The B-25 is the only US military plane to be named for a person: Gen. Billy Mitchell.

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Goofs

While Daniel is about to make dinner, Nat's hands are alternately folded/resting on the table between shots.

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Quotes

Daniel: And set your brakes.
Nat Cooper: Right.
Daniel: No, don't say, 'right' - - say, 'check'. 'Right' gets confusing. 'Check'.
Nat Cooper: Check.
Daniel: Right.
[Nat looks sideways at Daniel with a slightly exasperated "Are you giving me a hard time?" expression]

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Connections

Referenced in Seinfeld: The Movie (1993)

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Soundtracks

"The Very Thought of You"
Written by Ray Noble
Performed by Billie Holiday
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

User Reviews

Forever Heck Yeah

When I was watching this last night, I didn't realize it was written by the creator of "Lost"... and I'm glad I didn't know that, because it would have tainted my opinion.

I expected a sappy love story with a sappy Mel Gibson who takes a nap to wake up and find himself falling in sappy love with the ugly, but sappy, Jamie Lee Curtis and adopting her sappy and bug-eyed son, Elijah Wood. Bless my lucky stars, I was wrong. Mel Gibson is frozen by Norm from Cheers after his girlfriend goes into a coma. He wakes up in 1992 (he slept in 1939) to a whole new world. No sappiness, and Mel Gibson wasn't even sucking as hard as he tends to suck (see "What Women Want" for really hard sucking).

I really liked this film, it kept me from going to sleep on time. You'll like it, too, and maybe even more if you watch it with a date because it's really about how love lasts forever. (They say "diamonds" last forever, but those materialistic bastards wouldn't know real love if it woke up from a 50-year slumber!!!!) See this movie soon, because you never know when your last chance to see it will be.