Forever Young (film)

Forever Young (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Forever Young


caption = movie poster for "Forever Young"
director = Steve Miner
writer = J.J. Abrams
starring = Mel Gibson
Jamie Lee Curtis
Elijah Wood
Isabel Glasser
George Wendt
Joe Morton
producer = J.J. Abrams (executive)
Bruce Davey
music = Jerry Goldsmith
cinematography = Russell Boyd
distributor = Warner Bros.
Icon Entertainment
released = December 11, 1992
runtime = 102 min.
country = United States
language = English
amg_id = 1:18235
imdb_id = 0104291
:"For other uses of the name, see Forever Young."

"Forever Young" is a 1992 film, directed by Steve Miner, starring Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood and Jamie Lee Curtis. The screenplay was written by J.J. Abrams. The original music score is composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The film is marketed with the tagline "Time waits for no man, but true love waits forever."

ynopsis

Daniel McCormick, a 1939 test pilot, is as reckless as they come. He will fly anything with wings, dangerous or otherwise. After a successful run, Daniel is greeted by his longtime friend, Harry Finley, who confides that his latest experiment, "Project B", has succeeded in doing the impossible. The machine, built by Finley and his team of scientists, is a prototype chamber for cryonic freezing. When Daniel's fiancé Helen winds up in a coma from a car crash, and the doctors doubt she'll ever wake up, Daniel insists to be put in suspended animation.

Fifty-three years later, two boys playing around on the inside of a storage warehouse stumble onto the chamber (everyone has mistaken it for an old water heater). Twisting the dials, they accidentally activate the reversal process. During the confusion, Daniel's sleeping form reflexively grabs one of their coats. They flee in terror, and a short while later, Daniel wakes up... in 1992. After appropriating some shorts and a shirt from a clothesline, he first approaches the military about his experiences. When they dismiss him as a wacko, Daniel becomes all the more determined to find out what happened to Harry, Helen, and the world that has seemingly evolved overnight around him.

His search leads him to the home of Nat Cooper, one of the two boys who opened the chamber. Though the boys are initially scared, Daniel is able to calm Nat and his friend with the truth of his story. This bond is made stranger yet when Nat's mother Claire offers Daniel a place to stay, until he can find out what to do with his search. But Daniel's time is running out, as his body starts to age rapidly, due to the years he spent in stasis.

When another "aging attack" practically cripples Daniel, Claire is told the amazing truth, and she unites him with Harry's daughter Susan, who informs him that her father died many years earlier (the government later specifies it was a warehouse fire in the early 40s, trying to save the frozen Daniel from the chaos). Susan also gives Daniel her father's journals, hoping he can use them to reverse his own condition. Before leaving, Susan gives Daniel one further revelation... Helen is alive!

The final part of Daniel's journey is to find Helen in the present day. Nat stows away on board an old plane, where he helps Daniel land when another attack nearly kills him. His true age now finally having caught up with him, the now-elderly Daniel asks the one woman he has ever loved to marry him.

Main cast

* Mel Gibson as Capt. Daniel McCormick, USAAC
* Jamie Lee Curtis as Claire Cooper
* Elijah Wood as Nat Cooper
* Isabel Glasser as Helen
* George Wendt as Harry Finley
* Joe Morton as Cameron
* David Marshall Grant as Lt. Col. Wilcox, USAF
* Eric Pierpoint as Fred
* Richard Ryder as Pilot #1

Plane error

In the movie, Daniel mentions having flown a B-25 Mitchell (which he pilots later on in the movie) even though the B-25's maiden flight was in August 1940, 10 months after Daniel had already been frozen.

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