Boring, boring, boring. Predictable in every way. The time travel angle was not at all exploited for drama nor comedy, which made it less believable than "Back to the Future". "Wow, this telephone has push buttons! I shall evoke laffs by trying to move my finger in a rotary fashion over them." "What's that? It's an airplane! This world is amazing!" Much worse, the two main characters were not sympathetic; they were losers and I didn't care at all what happened to them. The retarded brother angle didn't evoke any sympathy either; rather than make me care about their lives and care that they overcome great odds to avoid unjust persecution, etc., I would have preferred that they both contract cryogenic cancer and die. Quickly. Bored, I walked out of the theater, which I *never* do.

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 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.

As I noted in my review for "Quest For Love", there are very few films in the SF/Romance genre. It is, after all, a tough combination to do right. Fortunately, "Late For Dinner" does it right.The plot has some similarities to Mel Gibson's "Forever Young". Both are the stories of someone being the guinea pig for a cryonics experiment, only to be thawed out many years in the future when their mate has aged without them. In this case, two brothers are frozen after an accident sends them on the run, accused of murder. One is Willy, a family man devoted to his wife and daughter. The other is Frank, mildly retarded and slowly dying of a degenerative incurable disease. Frank has become part of Willy's extended family, with everyone accepting his oddities and looking out for him. The issues we care about are the love story between Willy and his wife and whether there will be a cure for Frank's disease by the time he's thawed out.What raises this above the Gibson film is that you believe from the beginning that the romantic leads (Willy and his wife) are really in love. The relationship of the two brothers is caring without being idealized - they fight and argue, but you believe in how much they really care for one another. In "Forever Young", the characters display none of the depth of feeling that you associate with real love. Gibson's character lives in the world of Hollywood script writers where all relationships are self-gratifying and transitory, while this film is firmly rooted in the world we've hopefully all lived in at some point in our lives and would like to believe we could live in forever.The performances are excellent - touching without being maudlin. The three principles - Brian Wimmer, Peter Berg, and Marcia Gay Harden - are all totally believable. The secondary roles don't fail us, and especially so that of Colleen Flynn as Willy's grown daughter.All SF requires that you suspend disbelief to some degree, but that requirement is minimal here. The characters and their actions are all totally believable. What's more, they're good people - not perfect, but good. You really want things to work out for them.