Forever Young (Snap Case)
Added 10/4/2009
Excellent DVD for the whole family and arrived on time in great shape. Would buy from this seller again.
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Great Movie.Gibson
Added 5/15/2009
One of my favorite movies of all time. Done well by Gibson and Curtis. I loved the little boys that played the young boys parts. Great delivery time.
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If only we could remain Forever Young!
Added 12/24/2008
This is a very good movie, though a little sad. Makes you realize how important it is to enjoy life and love while you can, because you never know when everything will change, maybe forever. Mel Gibson looses a large part of his life, when he is involved in an experiment that goes awry. He does learn a lot from the ordeal and gets to enjoy the end of his life.
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A Time Travel Movie With Feeling
Added 12/17/2008
This is another of these frozen-in-time movies. I know at least two of them that were made in 1991-1992 and they were both fun to watch: this movie and "Late For Dinner."
The good things that this particular film has going for it are: 1 - Mel Gibson plays a very likable lead character in "Captain Daniel McCormick;" 2 - there is a nice 1940s atmosphere in the beginning with a beautiful Isabell Glasser, who exhibits one of the sweetest faces and smiles I've seen on film; 3 - there is a good mix of humor, drama and intrigue, as well as fantasy in the story; 4 - there is a nice, almost tear-inducing ending.
The film got criticized for being too unrealistic but, hey, it's supposed to be a fantasy story where everything is not explained. Overall, a nice, touching movie.
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Excellent cast.
Added 10/10/2008
Forever Young is a good and romantic drama. The story is a bit soapy but I believe this film was written by J.J. Abrams who went on to bigger and better things. The cast is extraordinary here with stars like Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and a young Elijah Wood. I like this film, brings back a lot of great memories, check it out sometime!
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Gibson's first jab at directing works well
Added 1/9/2004
It's not an easy dance - directing a movie while acting in it, but Gibson proved that even with one butt, you can dance at two weddings. Gibson plays Justin McLeod, a former teacher with a dark past - now a recluse, half of his face disfigured with terrible burns. The locals in his small town refer to him as "Hamburger Head" and otherwise spin spiteful gossip about him, even though none of them know what they're talking about. A local Ma & Pa grocer opens for a few hours at night each week, just so he can shop in privacy without people staring or calling him names, but he otherwise keeps to himself and his books.Nick Stahl fabulously portrays Chuck Norstadt, a young kid in a dysfunctional home and with no father. He is naturally curious about McLeod and pesters the former teacher relentlessly until he agrees to tutor him. McLeod has a soft side, but for the most part, he's all business and is usually brusk with Chuck. Despite the lack of warm fuzzies from McLeod, Chuck prefers his consistent normalcy than his self-centered, bed-hopping mother who says to him, "I'm just not cut out for this mothering racket." Charming, heh? Chuck proves himself to McLeod by studying his butt off. He works hard and excells in his studies and the two develop respect for each other and a true friendship - and for a time, although it is never openly acknowledged by either of them, Chuck has a a father and McLeod has a son - together they are more of a family than either of them has apart from each other. The local yokels are suspicious about Chuck's relationship with McLeod and suspect that McLeod has less than honorable intentions. Driven by gossip, fear, prejudice and hate, they threaten to ruin the time they have together. The "man without a face" is the father Chuck never got to know - the man with half a face and a full heart is the one he grows to admire and who he aspires to emulate and to make proud. This is a sweet, emotion-filled movie - it is quite amazing that Nick Stahl did not get tons of movie offers after this incredible debut in a major film. It was good to finally see him again in "Terminator 3" where he did another fine job. Family safe, but perhaps too intense and too involved for younger kids, this is a good film to watch together as a family to discuss prejudice and to discuss how hurtful words and gossip can be to other people, irregardless of how tempting gossip tends to be.
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What a Great Movie!
Added 5/18/2009
I saw this movie years ago, and watching it again was a real joy. It is one of Mel Gibson's best (he's not so overpowering as usual) but the real star of the movie is Nick Stahl. He was really a great actor even as a young boy. The movie is a tear-jerker, but is just a wonderful story. It makes you think about what is really important in life. The movie has beautiful scenery, too.
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Fate is a curse for the bigots
Added 3/5/2009
That's a strange film indeed. The situation is not innocuous, far from it. It cannot be considered as being a simple emotional or sentimental film, not even a social film. The stake is a lot more than that. It is a cultural film, a film about a whole culture that is being stifled, destroyed just out of bigotry, the culture of the male maturation of boys. Not even the sexual bigotry that is actually brandished to justify the rejection, and that's why it is not social or sentimental or even emotional. It is as cold as cold can be and purely cultural. It is dealing with the fundamental freedom of any child, of any man, of any woman, to dominate their lives, to choose what they want to do, who they want to love and even the way they want to love them. And the stake in the film is not even that last element since there is absolutely not one single little iota of sexuality, not even understood innuendo, between the man wand the boy. The only sexuality is between two heterosexual teenagers who are not of age. But why is that man rejected, why is that boy oppressed into severing his friendship from that man? The reasons are as ugly as any bigotry can be. First the bigotry of both men and women against any man who is not married and the father of several children. When we know the strongest criticism comes from the sheriff - whose mission that over-protective and slandering attitude may be - and from the mother who has three children from three different fathers and is raising that boy in an all-female environment with the introduction of a fourth man, husband, or whatever, to soon bring in another child probably, at least a development that might be satisfying for the mother's impulses, maybe for the daughters' impulses too who are more or less their own bosses and authorities, but a development that can only be disruptive for the son who is in that fragile moment when he needs some stability, a male presence and certainly not a mother who is multiplying her sexual partners. This film is thus a denunciation of the society that enables a mother and a sheriff to frustrate a young male teenager of the only friendly male presence he has managed to develop himself. This frustrating attitude is castrating in many ways too. And what's more it is vain because no one can get a teenager to reject and forget that friendship of his and the man will be there when he graduates, even if at a certain distance. But why is that bigotry so violent and ruthless? Mel Gibson makes it a lot more effective by making it the result of his deformed and disfigured face that was burned severely in a car accident in which a child, who was not the man's, was killed and for which he had spent three years in prison for some kind of accidental manslaughter. The local public opinion transforms it into a sexual crime that cannot be in anyway excused, especially since it never was committed. This duplicity, this obsessive fear from these people is the sign that we are sick and mad in our own psyches, we, I mean, the normal dominant heterosexual and terroristic moralists.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID.
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