KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

Deb Bee Brian Wimmer and Peter Berg star as best friends Willie and Frank. In 1962 Willie is unemployed with a wife and daughter and is about to lose his home and Frank is his mentally challenged brother-in-law with a bad kidney. While running from a crime they didn't commit, they meet Dr. Chilblains. The Dr., eager to try out his cryonics theory, promises Frank he'll wake up and be able to get a new kidney after a restful sleep while Willie is unconscious and unaware of what he has been committed to. The story evolves as they wake up in 1991 and find they've slept for 29 years and seek to get back to the loved ones they left behind.I think this movie is lovely. It's a reminder of simple times and the power of love and family. I saw it back in 1991 at the theater when it came out and have been thinking of it now and again for years - more so recently - so I finally broke down and bought the DVD. It is reminiscent of Forever Young, but Forever Young came out a year after this one and is very big-budget, Hollywood. I like this film much more. The characters are believable and really pull you into the story. It's definitely a sleeper and very good for weekend afternoon viewing. It is now my guilty pleasure as well.

griglette If low budget 1/2 star movies keep popping up in the $5.88 DVD bin at Walmart, why can't this be put on DVD? This movie is a wonderful story of love and perseverance. Though it's not much on action the story is as moving as Mel Gibson's FOREVER YOUNG and in my opinion actually better. The interaction between the brothers-in-law and their strange surroundings is funny and touching. Through the flight from justice to the journey home these two have more than their fair share of confusing moments. The wife's true love coming back after so many years is a Kleenex moment. And the twist when justice is finally recognized by the husband is heartwarming. This movie has been overlooked for far too long and deserves recognition. Anyone who gives it less than 6 stars needs to have their heads examined.

Milbourne Whitt 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.