Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

PodBill Just what I expected

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

milwhitt702 As I watched this movie again, seems like each time I see something I missed in it before, so I'm glad I did tape it as I did many others I have reviewed here. I was impressed with something I missed before, and this was after they got back home and Willie was trying to explain where they had been to his "grown up" daughter. (As you know by now Willie and Frank had been frozen for 29 years in Pomona CA). He said to her, "Do you remember the times we would catch all those trout and when we couldn't eat them all, we would freeze them, and when we got them out to eat them a long time later, they were just as handsome as they were when we first caught them? Well, that's what happened to Frank and me for 29 years". It was a very touching scene!!

Pro Jury *** This contains spoilers. ***Late for Dinner (1991)Deep-frozen in 1962 and with the aging process suspended for both, two men wake up in 1991 to a grown daughter and an older wife.Brian Wimmer, Peter Berg, Marcia Gay Harden, Colleen Flynn, Kyle SecorIt is easy to understand why Brian Wimmer and Colleen Flynn produced so much chemistry together in the first season of the New Flipper. So far I have seen them together in three different productions.In real life you may never see your father express a spec of emotion... until one day their sibling or parent dies, or they learn they are dying of cancer, or something else rare and profound. Even the most emotionless adults has a point when they have an emotional breakdown and are crying like a baby.The weakness with LATE FOR DINNER is the same for most all TV shows and movies where a loved one comes back from the dead... a loved one coming back from the dead would be hitting emotional raw nerve. There would be an emotional break down -- hysterics -- from each loved one.But in these movies and TV shows there is smooth coping -- and fairly calm understanding that a dead loved one has returned. The lack of emotion is not realistic.LATE FOR DINNER is not an earth-shaking deep drama. It is not a comedy. However, it is a story with charming likable actors.

angela-147 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.

sjadelson 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.