Late for Dinner

Sep 20, 1991

1h 39m

★ 5.6

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

Overview

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).

Genres

Drama

Romance

Science Fiction

Production Companies

New Line Cinema

Castle Rock Entertainment

Granite Pictures

Late for Dinner Trailers

Cast

Frank Lovegren

Peter Berg

Willie Husband

Brian Wimmer

Joy Husband

Marcia Gay Harden

Little Jessica Husband

Cassy Friel

Bob Freeman

Peter Gallagher

Little Donald Freeman

Ross Malinger

Duane Gardener (as Steven Schwartz-Hartley)

Luce Rains

Counter Girl

Janeane Garofalo

Dr. Dan Chilblains

Bo Brundin

Officer Tom Bostich

John Prosky

Dr. Chris Underwood

Donald Hotton

Leland Shakes

Kyle Secor

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