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Forever Young

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Original title

Forever Young

Year

1992

Running time

102 min.

Country

United States

Director

Steve Miner

Screenwriter

J.J. Abrams

Cast

Music

Jerry Goldsmith

Cinematography

Russell Boyd

Producer

Warner Bros., Icon Productions

Genre

Romance. Comedy. Fantasy | Romantic Comedy. 1990s. 1930s

Synopsis

Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) is a daring test pilot who is deeply distraught by the apparent death of his girlfriend, Helen, in 1939. Feeling little reason to live, he volunteers for a pioneering cryogenics experiment and is thawed out 50 years later by two young boys. They bring the confused pilot home to Nat's single mom, Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis). There's a hint of romance, but Daniel desperately needs to know if Helen really died in 1939, and he discovers that love has a way of surviving a half-century leap in time.

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Critics' reviews

"Because the movie seems divided about its real subject, it lacks the kind of emotional momentum it needs for its final scenes (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A big, rousing, old-fashioned romance (...) he director manages to toe the line of melodrama without ever slipping over into camp

Brian Lowry: Variety
"'Forever Young,' which turns on contrivances of plot rather than aspects of character, is as cheap emotionally as it is ideologically."

Rita Kempley: The Washington Post
"Gibson is good enough to give the film substance, making 'Forever Young' far easier to sit through than it has any right to be."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"[It] seems calculated, manufactured and phony (...) A ripoff screenplay as shameless as this might survive if the casting were particularly good"

Gene Siskel: Chicago Reader
"Relying on his star name, the film doesn't have to be great and isn't, although Gibson and Curtis try their hardest. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Barry McIlheney: Empire
"Hollywood used to churn out this kind of fluff with practised ease and it's a pity director Steve Miner couldn't have found the same winning formula here."

David Parkinson: Radio Times

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