“Forever Young” tells the story of a man who voluntarily goes into cryonic freezing for one year because his girlfriend goes into a coma, to avoid watching her die. Due to unforeseen circumstances, he wakes up 53 years later to a situation vastly different than what he planned on. As one can imagine, the drama proceeds from there.
Mel Gibson does his usual good job in this classic leading man part. Child actor Elijah Woods has a break-out performance in the movie as the ten-year-old who wakes Gibson’s character up from his half-century sleep. The supporting cast includes Jamie Lee Curtis, George Wendt, Joe Morton, Nicolas Surovy, David Marshall Grant, Miilie Slavin, Isabel Glasser, Robert Hy Gorman, Michael Goorjian, Veronica Lauren, Art LaFleur, Eric Pierpoint, Richard Ryder, Michael Briggs, and Walter Goggins as the gate MP.
Director Steve Miner (“Friday the 13th Part II” 1981) and screenwriter J. J. Abrams, who himself would go on to bigger and better things, especially in the scifi world, did an adequate job on this watchable sentimental tearjerker “Forever Young,” which was a hit at the box office for Icon Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Forever Young (1992)
cinema
My Review
“Forever Young” tells the story of a man who voluntarily goes into cryonic freezing for one year because his girlfriend goes into a coma, to avoid watching her die. Due to unforeseen circumstances, he wakes up 53 years later to a situation vastly different than what he planned on. As one can imagine, the drama proceeds from there.
Mel Gibson does his usual good job in this classic leading man part. Child actor Elijah Woods has a break-out performance in the movie as the ten-year-old who wakes Gibson’s character up from his half-century sleep. The supporting cast includes Jamie Lee Curtis, George Wendt, Joe Morton, Nicolas Surovy, David Marshall Grant, Miilie Slavin, Isabel Glasser, Robert Hy Gorman, Michael Goorjian, Veronica Lauren, Art LaFleur, Eric Pierpoint, Richard Ryder, Michael Briggs, and Walter Goggins as the gate MP.
Director Steve Miner (“Friday the 13th Part II” 1981) and screenwriter J. J. Abrams, who himself would go on to bigger and better things, especially in the scifi world, did an adequate job on this watchable sentimental tearjerker “Forever Young,” which was a hit at the box office for Icon Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures.