Forever Young is a 1992 film, directed by Steve Miner, starring Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood and Jamie Lee Curtis. The screenplay was written by J.J. Abrams. The original music score is composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The film is marketed with the tagline "Time waits for no man, but true love waits forever."
Summary
Set in the year 1939, Daniel McCormick is a reckless test pilot. After a successful run in a B-25 Mitchell, Daniel is greeted by his longtime friend, Harry Finley, who confides that his latest experiment, "Project B", has succeeded in doing the impossible. The machine, built by Finley and his team of scientists, is a prototype chamber for cryonic freezing. When Daniel's girlfriend Helen winds up in a coma from an accident, and the doctors doubt she'll ever wake up, Daniel insists to be put in suspended animation for a year, so he doesn't have to watch her die.
Fifty-three years later, two boys playing around on the inside of a military storage warehouse stumble onto the chamber. Twisting the dials, they accidentally activate the reversal process. During the confusion, Daniel's sleeping form reflexively grabs one of their coats. They flee in terror, and a short while later, Daniel wakes up in 1992. After appropriating some shorts and a shirt from a clothesline, he first approaches the military about his experiences. When they dismiss him as a wacko, Daniel becomes all the more determined to find out what happened to Harry, Helen, and the world that has seemingly evolved overnight around him.
His search leads him to the home of Nat Cooper, one of the two boys who opened the chamber. Though the boys are initially scared, Daniel is able to calm Nat and his friend with the truth of his story. This bond is made stranger yet when Nat's mother Claire offers Daniel a place to stay, until he can find out what to do with his search. But Daniel's time is running out, as his body starts to age rapidly, due to the years he spent in stasis.
When another "aging attack" practically cripples Daniel, Claire is told the amazing truth. Susan, Harry's daughter, informs him that her father died many years earlier (the government later specifies it was a warehouse fire in the early 40s, trying to save the frozen Daniel from the chaos). Susan also gives Daniel her father's journals, hoping he can use them to reverse his own condition. Before leaving, Susan gives Daniel one further revelation: Helen is alive.
The final part of Daniel's journey is to find Helen in the present day. Nat stows away on board a B-25 Mitchell, taken from an airshow, where he helps Daniel land when another attack nearly kills him. His true age now finally having caught up with him, the now-elderly Daniel asks Helen to marry him.
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In the movie, Daniel mentions having flown a B-25 Mitchell (which he pilots later on in the movie) even though the B-25's maiden flight was in August 1940, 10 months after Daniel had already been frozen. This may be due to him having "test" flown planes, and he may have flown it to test the plane before its maiden flight.
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