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In 1939 test pilot Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) has the world by the tail, and he's having the time of his life. He has the perfect job -- flying B-25s for the newly formed Air Corps. He has a terrific best friend -- loyal buddy and truly brilliant scientist, Harry Finley (George Wendt). And he has his true love at his side--his childhood sweetheart and beautiful soul-mate, Helen (Isabel Glasser). Life has given him everything he wanted. Almost. Daniel has only one problem: he can look danger in the face unflinchingly, but just thinking about emotions, much less declaring them, makes his throat close up without fail. He gets weak-kneed at the mere prospect of proposing marriage to Helen. And every time he does, Daniel decides that he can wait until tomorrow to pop the question. But a tragedy suddenly strikes Helen, and Daniel's tomorrows are snatched from him in one terrible instant. Now he must confront a life alone, knowing he never truly declared his feelings for the woman he will always love. Grief-stricken, Daniel volunteers for a top-secret cryogenics experiment conducted by his friend Harry -- an experiment that accidentally puts him into frozen slumber for more than fifty years. He awakens in 1992, lost, alone and out of step. Through a tender friendship with a fatherless young boy (Elijah Wood) and the boy's mother (Jamie Lee Curtis), Daniel finally learns that, while time waits for no man -- true love waits forever.
"A magical adventure. A heart-grabber that lifts the spirit." Susan Granger, American Movie Classics
Editor's Note
A test pilot loses his true love so he volunteers to become cryogenically frozen for an experiment. Many years later a group of young boys stumble across his frozen capsule and revive him. He befriends the boy's mother and learns that his old sweetheart is still alive. Can they be reunited after so much time has gone by?
Plot Summary
In 1939, the longtime girlfriend of a daredevil Army Air Corps test pilot is in an accident that renders her comatose. Grief-stricken, he volunteers to be frozen alive for a year in a cryogenics experiment, in the hopes that she will have recovered by the time he is ready to be thawed out. But his body remains in a deep freeze for 50 years until two children accidentally revive him. As the pilot attempts to cope with all the technological and cultural developments that have occurred during his sleep, he hurriedly tries to find the scientist who froze him and the woman he left behind.
| Features | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French | | Theatrical Trailer | | Production Notes | | Audio: English Dolby Digital; French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 9/26/2006 |
| Running Time: 111 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 12571 | | UPC: 00085391257127 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Gibson is good enough to give the film substance....Curtis also is attractive as Claire..." 12/16/1992 p.C17Chicago Sun-Times
"...Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis have some very sweet scenes together. Gibson in particular is good at finding the right balance of innocence and mischief for this material..." 12/16/1992 p.47 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
...it has its heart in the right place and Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis have some very sweet scenes together. Gibson in particular is good at finding the right balance of innocence and mischief for this material... - Roger Ebert
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 8 of 10
This romantic comedy-fantasy may play out by the numbers as it tugs at your heartstrings, but it's engaging just the same, and hard to resist, thanks to a charismatic cast. - Leonard Maltin
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