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Forever Young (1992)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1992
Running Times: 101m
Length: 9,127 ft
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Technicolor
Ratio: 1.37:1 (negative ratio)/1.85:1 (intended ratio)
Sound: Dolby Stereo


DIRECTION

Director: Steve Miner


CREW

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Executive Producers: Edward S. Feldman, Jeffrey Abrams
Producer: Bruce Davey
Unit Production Manager: Stephen M. McEveety

SCRIPT
Script: Jeffrey Abrams

DIRECTION
2nd Unit Director: David Ellis
Assistant Directors: Matt Earl Beesley, David Schrager, John Kuberski, Tom Peitzman, Andy Spilkoman, Chris Gerrity, John Scotti

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Russell Boyd
Additional / 2nd Unit Photography: Michael Benson
Aerial Photography: Rexford Metz
Camera Operators: Michael St Hilaire, Chris Schweibert, Phil Schwartz
1st Assistant Camera: Annie McEveety
Camera: Panaflex
Lenses: Panavision
Laboratory: Technicolor

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Jon Poll

MUSIC
Music / Music Director: Jerry Goldsmith
Songs: Ray Noble (The Very Thought of You); Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell (You Are My Sunshine)
Songs Performed By: Billie Holiday (The Very Thought of You)
Theme Arranger: Brad Dechter
Orchestrations: Arthur Morton, Alexander Courage
Music Programmer: Nick Vidar
Music Recordist: Bruce Botnick
Music Editor: Ken Hall

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Jim Tanenbaum
Boom Operator: Raul A. Bruce
Re-Recordists: Les Fresholtz, Vern Poore, Dick Alexander
Supervising Sound Editor: Dane A. Davis
Sound Editors: Martin J. Bram, Kimberly Lowe Voigt
ADR Supervisor: G.W. Brown
ADR Editor: Avram D. Gold
Sound Effects Editors: Todd Toon, Kini Kay, Peter Tomaszewicz
Foley Mixer: Tommy Goodwin
Foley Editors: Tom Hammond, Kurt N. Forshager

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Costume Supervisors: Frank Rose, Deanna Doran
Make Up: Dick Smith, Michael Hancock, Lona Jeffers

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up: Greg Cannom
Special Make Up Effects Technician: Roland Blancaflor

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Visual Concept Engineering
Mechanical Effects: Image Special Effects Company, Peter Chesney

VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects: Peter Kuran
Titles and Opticals: Pacific Title

DIGITAL EFFECTS
Digital Effects: Peter Kuran

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Gregg Fonseca
Art Director: Bruce A. Miller
Set Designers: Jann K. Engel, Richard Yanez, Steve Jeffrey Wolff
Set Decorator: Jay R. Hart
Property Master: Kirk Corwin
Assistant Property Master: John Sweeney
Construction Coordinator: Robert J. Carlyle
Title Designer: Nina Saxon Film Design

OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Rob Klein
Aerial Coordinator: James W. Cavin
B-25 Pilot: Steve Hinton
Technical Advisors: Major Christopher G. Chalko, Charles E. Davis, Major Violeta A. Strong
Medical Advisors: Donna Cline, Matt Clancy

LOCATIONS
Locations: Claremont, California, USA; Point Arena, Mendocino, California, USA; South Pasadena, California, USA; Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Location Managers: Ron Carr, Gail Stempler

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: David Ellis
Stunts: Gregory Barnett, Steve Boyum, Jack Carpenter, Steve Chambers, John Thomas Cypert, Annie Ellis, Richard Ellis, Tony Epper, Don Pulford, Mic Rogers, Ric Waugh, Dick Ziker

CASTING
Casting: Marion Dougherty
Extras Casting: Bill Dance Casting


CAST

Mel Gibson (Captain Daniel McCormick)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Claire Cooper)
Elijah Wood (Nat Cooper)
Isabel Glasser (Helen)
George Wendt (Harry Finley)
Joe Morton (Cameron)
Nicolas Surovy (John)
David Marshall Grant (Lt Col Wilcox USAF)
Robert Hy Gorman (Felix)
Millie Slavin (Susan Finley)
Michael A. Goorjian (Steven)
Veronica Lauren (Alice)
Art LaFleur (Alice's Father)
Eric Pierpoint (Fred)
Walt Goggins (gate MP)
Amanda Foreman (Debbie)
Karla Tamburrelli (Blanche)
Robert Munns (Wrong Harry)
J.D. Cullum (Frank)
Ava Lazar (waitress at diner in 1992)
Richard Ryder, Michael Briggs (pilots at airshow)
Kenneth Ransom, Jared Chandler (officers at warehouse)
Jon Menick (doctor at airfield)
Paul Ganus, Jason Iorg (airbase personnel in 1939)
Mary Ellen Moore (ticket woman)
Miriam Beesley, Lisa Savage (women at picnic)
Cody Burger (boy at picnic)
Dean Hallo, Greg Allan Martin, Joel McKinnon Miller (men at picnic)
William Marquez (hospital doctor)
Steve Hinton Jr (boy with ice cream)
John Bourg (Daniel aged 11)
Ara Maxwell (Helen aged 11)


PLOT SUMMARY

In 1939, heartbroken test pilot Daniel McCormick persuades his scientist friend to put him in cryogenic stasis for a year as part of his experiments so that McCormick doesn't have to go through the agony of watching his girlfriend lying in a coma. But the experiment goes wrong and McCormick wakes in 1992...


AVAILABILITY

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.
Video Distributor: Argentina Video Home

Germany
Laserdisc Distributor: Warner Home Video (12571 LD)
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video (12571)

Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Española S.A.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video (D012571)

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.
Video Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Warner Home Video (12571)
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video (12571)


CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Argentina
Rating: Atp

Austria
Rating: 6

Chile
Rating: TE

Finland
Rating: S

Germany
Rating: 6

Spain
Rating: T

Sweden
Rating: 11

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG


TIMELINE

1992
December

16: USA - theatrical release

1993
March

25: Australia - theatrical release

April
2: Finland, Spain, Sweden - theatrical release
7: France - theatrical release
8: Germany - theatrical release

June
9: USA - laserdisc release (Warner Home Video (12571))
17: Argentina - theatrical release

October
22: Germany - laserdisc release (Warner Home Video (12571 LD))

1994
October

16: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies)

1996
May

19: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1997
July

29: USA - DVD release (Warner Home Video (12571))

December
26: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (LWT))

1999
February

22: UK - DVD release (Warner Home Video (D012571))
24: Germany - DVD release (Warner Home Video (12571))

December
24: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)


POSTER TAGS

Time waits for no man but true love waits forever


ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Amore per sempre - Italian title
Eternamente Jovem - Portugese title
Eternamente joven - Spanish title
Evigt ung - Swedish title
Halhatatlan szerelem - Hungarian title
Ikuisesti nuori - Finnish title
Return of Daniel - working title
Wiecznie mlody - Polish title


REFERENCES

PERIODICALS

Cinema 25 March 1993 (Germany)
review (by Bert Buellmann)

Legend no.18 (Summer 1995) pp.35-37 (UK)
illustrated article

Première April 1993 p.20 (France)
review (by Jean-Paul Chaillet)

Sight and Sound vol.3 no.11 (November 1993) p.58 (UK)
note

Sight and Sound vol.4 no.5 (May 1994) p.70 (UK)
note

Starburst no.176 (April 1993) pp.14-18; 43-45 (UK)
illustrated interview; illustrated credits, review

NEWSPAPERS

Svenska Dagbladet 2 April 1993 (Sweden)
review (Trivsam matiné by Anna Ångström)


KEYWORDS

cryonics, cryogenics, aircraft, pilots, comas, children


Last Updated: 23 November, 2008

 


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