Forever Young (film)

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Movie
German title Forever Young
Original title Forever Young
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 6 (television, DVD),
FSK 12 (cinema)
Rod
Director Steve Miner
script JJ Abrams
production Bruce Davey ,
Edward S. Feldman ,
Mel Gibson
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera Russell Boyd
cut Jon Poll
occupation

Forever Young is an American movie from the year 1992 . Directed by Steve Miner and written by JJ Abrams . The main roles were played by Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis . The film opened in German cinemas on April 8, 1993.

action

Captain Daniel McCormick is a test pilot and works for the US Army Air Corps . After McCormick's girlfriend Helen fell into a coma after an accident , McCormick grievedly asks his friend Harry Finley to take him as a test subject for a top-secret experiment. McCormick is said to be frozen in a capsule for a year. When Finley dies in an accident, however, the capsule (with the frozen McCormick in it) is accidentally stored by the Air Corps (later the Air Force ) under the wrong label.

About 50 years later, the boy Nat Cooper and his friend Felix break into the camp. They trigger a mechanism that thaws McCormick. Then the two boys flee.

McCormick later reports to an Air Force base, where no one believes his story. He then finds accommodation with the nurse Claire Cooper, Nat's mother. He befriends Nat and gives him tips about love, among other things, but initially strictly refuses to teach him to fly.

Nat helps McCormick find people who know something about his past. They are fleeing from government agents who have since noticed the mistake and are looking for McCormick. Because it is very important for space exploration to study McCormick.

Another problem is that after McCormick thaws out of his 50 years of cold sleep, he undergoes an accelerated aging process in which the body ages in the short amount of days or weeks around the time it was frozen.

McCormick learns that Helen married, widowed, and is still alive. So he steals a North American B-25 bomber from WWII at an air show in order to get to her. Meanwhile, Claire gives incoming government agents to Finley's notes about the experiment. After taking off, McCormick notices that Nat has sneaked on board. McCormick, who is now aging very quickly, can no longer land the plane himself, so Nat, under McCormick's instructions, lands the plane near Helen's house. When they see each other, he asks her if she still wants to marry him. She said yes.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 16, 1992 that the film was not particularly "inspired" . He praised some scenes with Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis.

The chronicle of the film described the film as "very sentimental in many scenes" .

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a “ cheerful, sentimental modern film fairy tale ” that lacked the “ originality of the basic idea ”, but that the “ restrained staging ” and the “ performance ” would make up for it.

backgrounds

The film grossed approximately US $ 128 million in cinemas worldwide , including approximately US $ 56 million in the United States.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
  2. ↑ Die Chronik des Films , Chronik Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-86047-132-5
  3. ↑ Forever Young. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used