DIRECTED BY: Steve Miner

WRITTEN BY: J. J. Abrams

MEL GIBSON AS: Captain Daniel McCormick

GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance

TAGLINES:

- Time waits for no man but true love waits forever.

- Fifty years ago he volunteered for a dangerous experiment. All in the name of love.

PLOT SUMMARY:

In 1939, a test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn’t have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he’s been awoken in 1992. –IMDB

RELEASE DATES:

1992 December 11 (United States – Los Angeles)
1992 December 16 (United States)
1993 March 6 (Japan)
1993 March 25 (Australia)
1993 March 26 (United Kingdom)
1993 April 2 (Finland, Spain, Sweden)
1993 April 7 (France)
1993 April 8 (Germany, Netherlands)
1993 June 17 (Argentina)
1993 June 18 (Hungary)

BOX OFFICE GROSS:

United States: $54,986,325

TRIVIA:

- When Daniel is making phone calls to locate his friend, the phone number that he leaves on the answering machine is 555-2368. That phone number is the same as the one used in Ghost Busters (1984) in their TV commercials.

- The phone number Daniel says is also seen on Jim Rockford’s phone in the opening title sequence of The Rockford Files (1974)

- The B-25J seen in this film is known as “Photo Fanny” and is located at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California.

- J.J. Abrams’ script was sold for $2 million under its original title of “The Rest of Daniel”.

- Nat and Felix are playing the video game F-Zero just before Daniel comes in.

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