Forever Young (1992)

When his girlfriend falls into a coma after a car accident, Army test pilot Mel Gibson begs his best friend, scientist George Wendt, to cryogenically freeze him for a year so he doesn’t have to watch her die. More than fifty years later, the Army has lost track of the chamber containing Gibson until two kids playing in a storage facility accidentally activate it. Featuring Mel Gibson as a charming lead, Elijah Wood an annoying child, and Jamie Lee Curtis the caregiver mom, it’s truly a film from a very obvious place in time. Overly sentimental and overtly predictable, I wish it had spent more time on the time period adjustment than it does on the buddies running from the authorities bit, especially as there didn’t seem to be a good reason for the authorities to be pursuing him so aggressively.