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A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.
Theatrical
Dec 16, 1992
Box Office
$128.0M
Budget
$20.0M
Return
6.4x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jul 30, 1997
Director
Steve Miner
Writer
J.J. Abrams
Producers
J.J. Abrams, Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson
Music
Jerry Goldsmith
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures, Icon Productions
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Quotes
See all →Love Endures Beyond Time's Limits
Taglines
Fifty years ago, he volunteered for a dangerous experiment. All in the name of love. Time waits for no man, but true love waits forever.
Embracing Change and Timeless Love
Taglines
He loves living on the edge, now he's taking the chance of a lifetime. And after fifty years, the world has changed. But falling in love remains the same.
Conflict Over Technology and Human Connection
Claire Cooper
Look, he hasn't seen this woman in 50 years! Hasn't he been through enough? You'll get your plane back. Just leave him alone!
USAF Officer
We won't hurt him.
Claire
Then why do you want him??! A cup of coffee? A chat?
Mr Cameron
Excuse me. Walk this way, please. You know how long it takes to get to the next star system? 100 years, and that's the closest one. You can't make that trip without this kind of technology and right now, we're decades behind where Finley got in 1939 and Daniel's the only link between Finley's work and my own.
[intervenes; gestures to Claire]
Claire
That's not true. Everything you ever wanted to know about freezing someone.
[later gives Finley's notes]
Unraveling Relationships and Connections in Conversation
Claire Cooper
That's her, isn't it?
Daniel McCormick
Helen.
Claire
Is that your child?
Daniel
No. We were never married.
[leaves for a moment]
Susan Finley
That's me in the picture. I was two.
[points to girl]
Daniel
That's impossible. She died before you were born.
[stops]
Susan
Daniel, Helen's alive!
Cast
Full credits →
Mel Gibson
Capt. Daniel McCormick
Jamie Lee Curtis
Claire Cooper
E
Elijah Wood
Nat Cooper
I
Isabel Glasser
Helen
G
George Wendt
Harry Finley
J
Joe Morton
Cameron
N
Nicolas Surovy
John
D
David Marshall Grant
Lt. Col. Wilcox USAF
R
Robert Hy Gorman
Felix
M
Michael A. Goorjian
Steven
V
Veronica Lauren
Alice
A
Art LaFleur
Alice's Father
E
Eric Pierpoint
Fred
W
Walton Goggins
Gate MP
A
Amanda Foreman
Debbie
K
Karla Tamburrelli
Blanche Finley
K
Kenneth Ransom
Officer at Warehouse
M
Millie Slavin
Susan Finley
