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Forever Young (Keepcase) | 
| Director: Steve Miner
Actors: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: $5.98
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Rating:  58 reviews
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 883929084777
UPC: 883929084777
EAN: 0883929084777
ASIN: B002GHHHNI
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: September 8, 2009
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/08/2009
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A sleeper hit when released in 1992, this romantic fantasy works as a comedic adventure and a gentle tearjerker thanks to Mel Gibson's appealing performance. He plays Daniel, 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. The premise is hokey and certain plot details are conveniently ignored, but Gibson, Curtis, and Elijah Wood (as Nat) hold it together with irresistible charm and just the right balance of fantasy and drama. --Jeff Shannon
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 What happened to the Widescreen version? September 3, 2010
Dann L. McKee (Windermere, Florida USA)
Great movie! Love it! It deserves to be re-released in it's original widescreen format (enhanced for widescreen displays).
Better romantic and die than pathetically mute July 28, 2010
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
A very touching film because of some extremely sentimental and poignant elements. The girl that holds your heart and to whom you cannot propose crosses a road and gets hit by a truck. Coma..., irreversible..., they say. Better get frozen for later than live through this death. Frozen by some doctor who dies and leaves you behind and you are abandoned in a hangar. A couple of naughty boys revive you and then the real nightmare starts. They all believe you are nuts of course, except the mother of one of the boys, a nurse by profession he saves from an ex-whatever who wants to rape her. Finding your identity after 53 years in ice, that's hard. But there is a slight problem with Dorian Gray's picture. You are the picture and your age shows fast. Will he find and marry his sweetheart and is she still alive? Will he escape the cops and the doctors? Who knows? What will the little boy who revived him do? Nothing to say here. Just keep in mind this film is a piece of romantic beauty and that's all. The visit of the air force base I remember I must have done it in the same period, around 1990, one or two years more or less. That was a funny experience and I would have loved meeting Mel Gibson in one of the jets. But well no luck boy. Mel Gibson is nothing but a celluloid baby who has no real existence and his life is a dream and in this case the dream could have turned into a nightmare. Mel Gibson is a very flexible actor and manages romantic situations or situations with kids just as well as he does mad situations with Max and his tribe, not to speak of the mythic religious rewriting of the passion or the whole cosmos. There is something like a certain Connors and Schwarzenegger in that Gibson, even if he is a difficult spouse to get a divorce from. Back to the future then.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Corny, Silly, and all that.... but still a great love story March 15, 2010
vtibs (Paris, France)
OK, this film is silly. Guy in love, scared to pop the question; girl hit by a truck (literally), goes into a coma; guy decides life not worth living so volunteers for the first-ever (top secret!!!) cryogenics experiment. Wakes up 53 years later, discovers the world has forgotten about him, but he has not forgotten anything; especially not his one true love and his best (only) friend.
So, dimiss the movie on the altar of "ridiculous, not realistic at all..."
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Enjoy a beautifully made love story of human beings (and planes...) that works at multiple levels. The scene where Daniel (Gibson) teaches Nat (Wood) to fly is simply one of the best "romance" scenes ever filmed by Hollywood (in the truest sense of the word "romance", see [...]).
The only truly wrong note in the movie is the ending, so quit about 45 seconds before the end, if you can. Till then, sit back and enjoy.
Forever Young ..for our grandsons who love flying February 6, 2010
Diane Dofelmier
Our 7 and 5 year old grandsons loved this movie because of the flying and the youing boy in it! It arrived on time and in excellent shape.
Forever Young January 8, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
In 1939, after losing his love, a test pilot volunteers for a cryogenics experiment and is "thawed out" 50 years later. This movie is a romantic drama, with a twist in the tale that changes everything. A truly amazing movie. Elijah Wood and Mel Gibson give a great performance that really do complement each other. A very touching movie for all to see.
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