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.

When Willy and his brother in law Frank (Peter Berg) who is intellectually disabled run into some trouble after a misunderstanding with a land developer (Peter Gallager), which leaves Willy injured and the land developer dead, they leave there home town of Santa Fe and travel to California, where they are helped by a Dr who asks Frank if he could have a really good nights sleep and wake up with a new kidney (Frank has health problems besides his disability), would he be willing to try it, Frank wholeheartedly agrees accept Willy and Frank are cryongenically frozen and woken up 29 years later after the tanks they are in become damaged from a cable reel falling through the roof of the warehouse they are in, They then embark on a journey home to Santa Fe to get there lives back, however what they once had may not be so easy to get back, as they discover. This movie although not a smash hit or a box office hit, was in my mind quite good, Peter Gallager as the slimey land developer delivers a steller performance and Peter Berg as Frank delivers one of his best performances to date, though I am biased in that regard as I absolutely love this actor and have been following his career religiously for a while now. I'd recomend this film to all audiences, young and old.

I heard about Late For Dinner about the time that Mel Gibson's "Forever Young" came out... some reviewer commented that LFD had done the concept previously and better. They were right! My wife and I absolutely love this flick. It's funny, romantic, and heartwarming. It is NOT a time travel movie, although certainly it touches on certain SF concepts. One of the few movies that I actually get teary over. It really should be released on DVD as soon as possible.