Late for Dinner (1991)

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best movie i've ever seen.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A man returns home after being frozen for many years. He finds his daughter is grown and hears what happened to his wife. While explaining something the daughter mentions Ronald Reagan. The man, who has been frozen and unaware of the past 25 years, says "You mean Ronald Reagan the movie actor?" She says "He was the president." The man says "You mean, President of the movie people?" She replies "Worse. President of everyone." For that insult and for the smugness of the Hollywood Left I give this movie one lousy star and IMO that is rating it far too high. I have had it up to here with having Hollywood push their smarmy views on everyone and that includes even in a lousy made for TV movie like this. The people who wrote or 'acted' that scene share in the blame for this utter lack of class.

Boring, boring, boring. Predictable in every way. The time travel angle was not at all exploited for drama nor comedy, which made it less believable than "Back to the Future". "Wow, this telephone has push buttons! I shall evoke laffs by trying to move my finger in a rotary fashion over them." "What's that? It's an airplane! This world is amazing!" Much worse, the two main characters were not sympathetic; they were losers and I didn't care at all what happened to them. The retarded brother angle didn't evoke any sympathy either; rather than make me care about their lives and care that they overcome great odds to avoid unjust persecution, etc., I would have preferred that they both contract cryogenic cancer and die. Quickly. Bored, I walked out of the theater, which I *never* do.

I've not seen this for several years, and I hope I'm not exaggerating this recollection, but there is one thing about this film that you might find interesting: one of the main characters is portrayed as mentally challenged. ("Mildly retarded" is an old fashioned way to put it.) Throughout, he is treated as a 'person', rather than a 'problem'. This character is done so well, and with such grace - and the manner in which he is treated by the other characters is so decent - that I would recommend seeing the movie if only for that. Otherwise, I remember it as a quirky, pleasant movie... the kind that you feel good about afterward, and were pleased to have spent some time with.

When Willy and his brother in law Frank (Peter Berg) who is intellectually disabled run into some trouble after a misunderstanding with a land developer (Peter Gallager), which leaves Willy injured and the land developer dead, they leave there home town of Santa Fe and travel to California, where they are helped by a Dr who asks Frank if he could have a really good nights sleep and wake up with a new kidney (Frank has health problems besides his disability), would he be willing to try it, Frank wholeheartedly agrees accept Willy and Frank are cryongenically frozen and woken up 29 years later after the tanks they are in become damaged from a cable reel falling through the roof of the warehouse they are in, They then embark on a journey home to Santa Fe to get there lives back, however what they once had may not be so easy to get back, as they discover. This movie although not a smash hit or a box office hit, was in my mind quite good, Peter Gallager as the slimey land developer delivers a steller performance and Peter Berg as Frank delivers one of his best performances to date, though I am biased in that regard as I absolutely love this actor and have been following his career religiously for a while now. I'd recomend this film to all audiences, young and old.