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Plot

W.D. Richter directed this comedy-drama in the spirit of Back to the Future and Peggy Sue Got Married. The film opens in Santa Fe in 1962, where Willie (Brian Wimmer) and Joy Husband (Marcia Gay Harden) are a cute couple living in familial bliss with their five-year-old daughter. When evil land-developer Bob Freeman (Peter Gallagher) tries to turn their bliss into blight, a gun goes off and Willie flees to Los Angeles with his dim-witted brother-in-law Frank (Peter Berg), convinced he has committed murder. They run into crazed scientist Dr. Chilblains (Bo Brundin), who cryogenically freezes the fugitives. Twenty-nine years later they are defrosted, and Willie, who has only aged a day, goes back to Santa Fe with Frank to seek out his wife and daughter, discovering they have aged and gone on with their lives without him.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Comedy,Drama,Science Fiction
Run Time:
93min.
Theatrical Release Date:
09/20/1991
Distributor(s):
Columbia Pictures
Director(s):
W.D. Richter
Starring:
Brian Wimmer , Peter Berg , Marcia Gay Harden , Colleen Flynn , Kyle Secor
Themes:
Time Sleepers
Tone:
Bittersweet,Humorous,Quirky,Understated
Keywords:
afterlife,cryogenics,experiment,family,friendship,time,time-travel
Country of Origin:
USA (09-20-1991)