Wonderful character development!

Boring, long, and too preachy.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

In 1962 Willie Husband (Brian Wimmer) and brother in law Frank Lovegren (Peter Berg) are cryogenically frozen because they believe the police are after them. They're accidentally thawed out in 1991. They quickly learn what's happened but Willie goes to find his wife...but will his wife still be alive or accept him? There's no doubt about it--this is a whopper of a story but if you can accept it you might be caught up in it. I saw it in a small theatre back in 1991 and its easy-going, laid-back and romantic approach charmed me. It still holds up all these years later! The movie is very quiet and (obviously) quirky but I loved it. The actors are all good. They play it in a matter of fact way that works beautifully with the story. There's also a good selection of old romantic songs playing once in a while in the background...but they never overdo it. They play just enough to get you in the mood. This came (and went) quickly back in 1991 but it deserves to be discovered. A sweet, quirky romantic comedy drama. I give it a 9.

This is one of my favorite films that I can watch over and over again. Frank, who has kidney disease is with his friend and brother-in-law, Willy. Destiny takes hold of their lives as Frank is given the idea that if he takes a "very long one night sleep", that perhaps the next morning, he can just walk into a hospital and request a new kidney (when kidney transplants hadn't even been heard of). Frank and Willy find themselves in a new reality and find out how important real love truly is, and how easily it can be lost, in this science fiction romantic drama which I highly recommend. The film ends with one of the most wonderful songs sung by Linda Ronstadt, "I Love You For Sentimental Reasons".

I simply love this movie. Fascinated by "time travel" since just a kid, I was drawn to it originally by that overwrought Science Fiction hook, but having purchased the video sometime in 1993 I watch it yearly. Besides a couple of cheap political put downs not germane to anything, this movie, at it's heart is about enduring love and family....what Forever Young was meant to be. It engenders the same emotions in me that Fields of Dreams does and takes it a step further. It takes a couple of intriguing WHAT IFs and dramatizes how a real person with a real life would react. WHAT IF you met your dad as a young man close to you in age? WHAT IF the love of your life disappeared and came back years later? Would genuine love prevail as physical attraction diminishes? The acting, on every level, is superb and I follow the career of Marcia Gay Hardin and Colleen Flynn simply because I discovered them here years ago. Once able to "suspend your disbelief", this movie may move you like the "You had me at 'hello'" scene of Jerry McGuire. I hope you let it.

Not the best movie in the world, but if you're up late at night and it's on the TV, it's worth watching.I can imagine it being done far more successfully with a bigger budget, better performances and a better screenplay.Performances (mainly) are fairly poor. Why does the realisation of the date mean they want to have their lives back? They haven't LOST their lives, are still the same age, look the same, etc. A couple of bits are baffling. mostly the "frozen-bits". And why make Frank ill AND (apparently) mentally defective? However, not really as bad as all that - suspension of disbelieve strongly advised.