Late for Dinner

1991 "Sometimes you can be gone forever and still make it back in time."
Late for Dinner
6.5| 1h39m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 20 September 1991 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).

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rooster_davis A man returns home after being frozen for many years. He finds his daughter is grown and hears what happened to his wife. While explaining something the daughter mentions Ronald Reagan. The man, who has been frozen and unaware of the past 25 years, says "You mean Ronald Reagan the movie actor?" She says "He was the president." The man says "You mean, President of the movie people?" She replies "Worse. President of everyone." For that insult and for the smugness of the Hollywood Left I give this movie one lousy star and IMO that is rating it far too high. I have had it up to here with having Hollywood push their smarmy views on everyone and that includes even in a lousy made for TV movie like this. The people who wrote or 'acted' that scene share in the blame for this utter lack of class.
James Bass It's simple... but it's full of complex human emotion. What if? Consider a couple, caught in events beyond their control, separated by time (29 years to be exact), and reunited. Can true love withstand that kind of test? With the aid of the love of a brother and sister, and the unbreakable bond of father and daughter, and a few extra twists thrown in... well, almost anything is possible.Our family considers this one of the few, unblemished perfect stories. I just don't understand why they've never seen fit to release it on DVD, as our VHS copy is starting to wear awfully thin. However... what a joy to share this with friends that have never seen it. The reaction is always the same... "How is it I've never heard of this?"Oddly enough, this really is a science fiction. But that's just a minor plot device (fun though!) to help ask the questions about true love, family, friendship, honesty, devotion... oh it's just a goldmine of warm fuzzies.If this movie needs an evangelist to carry it's message... I'll happily volunteer. See it... and love it like we do.
Milbourne Whitt I had never seen this actor, Brian Wimmer, before, but he did a fantastic job in this movie. Peter Berg was great as the sick and somewhat "slow" brother in law. It is a movie that would make any person look back to 1962 and and make you wonder about all how you would accept all this new technology if you suddenly woke up in 1991. It was even a little scary but I have seen it three times and finally taped it. I was at Edwards AFB in 1962 and had a cousin in Pomona that I visited often, and my uncle had a blue Ford Station wagon, so this put me closer to the movie than most people. The fact that Willie did not age and when he went back to Santa Fe to all the new changes, that was spooky. Then when he saw his wife, so much older, I felt so sorry for the time he had lost. Great movie #10.
jdxinlla This is the kind of movie you can spend wrapped in your other half's arms and enjoy. Too bad it has not been released in DVD.Watching a land tycoon try to ruin the life of a hard working man that is put out of work makes you think this is what can happen in the real world. What a way to get over on people and think because you have money and power you can do what you want. Going through what they went through with loosing many years of life and having the determination to get what is left back, makes you love this movie for what is worth. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you care for other people close to you. This movie was put in my top 10 without even trying. The cast could not have been better. The way you feel about them by the end of this event will make you watch this movie every time you feel the need.