Late for Dinner

Late for Dinner (1991)

Sometimes you can be gone forever and still make it back in time.

Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).

Date of release
1991-09-20
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Director
W.D. Richter

Casting

Interesting facts

Late for Dinner is a 1991 American science fiction drama film directed by W. D. Richter, starring Peter Berg, Brian Wimmer, and Marcia Gay Harden. The supporting cast includes Peter Gallagher and Richard Steinmetz, with Janeane Garofalo making her film debut in a brief, comical role as a cashier at a burger joint.

Production

During a conversation which veered toward the subject of cryonics, W. D. Richter was inspired to develop a project involving a man from the past who awakens in the 1990s. Richter enlisted Mark Andrus to write the screenplay under the working title of Freezer with the project eventually acquired by Castle Rock Entertainment.

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