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Forever Young

1992

Steve Miner

Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser ...

5.4

11,173

Romance. Comedy. Fantasy 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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)"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry Variety	"A big, rousing, old-fashioned romance (...) he director manages to toe the line of melodrama without ever slipping over into camp	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Gibson is good enough to give the film substance, making 'Forever Young' far easier to sit through than it has any right to be."	NEU
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Reader	"[It] seems calculated, manufactured and phony (...) A ripoff screenplay as shameless as this might survive if the casting were particularly good"	NEG

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