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Bookmark this pageLate for Dinner (1991)
Director: WD Richter
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From Time Out Film Guide
A dusty gas-guzzler slithers along a desert road. Frank (Berg) can't drive - he's not quite right in the head - but at least he doesn't have a bullet in his chest like his brother Willie (Wimmer). In the limbo of LA's sub-suburbs, these two hapless fugitives come to rest in the laboratory of one Doc Chilblains (Brundin), experimenter in cryonics. It is 1962. The next morning, it is 1991. Nonplussed, Frank maintains they must be late for dinner. The rest of the world supposes these defrosting hicks are simply out to lunch. This starts in quirky fashion, shifts into an amiable retread of Back to the Future, then trundles to a standstill on the home straight. Willie and Frank return to Santa Fe, an ageing wife (Harden) and grown-up child (Flynn), and suddenly it's terms of endearment time, a laborious restoration of family, hearth and home. Even if you can stomach this sentimental retardation, the film still manages to outstay its welcome.Author: TCh
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- Posted on Dec 30 2008 18:16 I suppose I am just a guy who likes a "feel good movie " once in awhile, I have not seen this movie in years and was looking to check it out on dvd but it seems that its not available, who do you check with to see if it will ever come out on DVD ?? I loved it and would like to see it again but I do not have a vhs even set up in my theatre room so for now I guess i'm screwed. Hopefully it gets released one day as I would love to share it with my family.
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Cast & crew
Director: WD Richter
Producer: Dan Lupovitz, WD Richter
Cast: Brian Wimmer, Peter Berg, Marcia Gay Harden, Colleen Flynn, Kyle Secor, Michael Beach, Peter Gallagher, Bo Brundin full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 93 mins
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