Years after making an indelible mark on the horror genre with The Exorcist, William Friedkin returned to the scarier side of cinema with The Guardian. Ahead of the 1990 film's January 19th Blu-ray debut from Scream Factory, we have the release's extensive list of bonus features and a look at the cover art:
Press Release: William Friedkin, the Academy Award® winning director of The Exorcist, delivers a new kind of fairy tale for adults. A handsome young couple finds the perfect live-in babysitter to look after their newborn child. It seems like a fairy tale, until ancient, supernatural forces turn the couples dream into a nightmare. On January 19, 2016, Scream Factory™ is proud to present The Guardian, arriving for the first time on Blu-ray™. A film by William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The Hunted), the supernatural thriller stars Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero), Dwier Broan (Red Dragon) and Carey Lowell (License to Kill).
A must-have for loyal fans,...
Press Release: William Friedkin, the Academy Award® winning director of The Exorcist, delivers a new kind of fairy tale for adults. A handsome young couple finds the perfect live-in babysitter to look after their newborn child. It seems like a fairy tale, until ancient, supernatural forces turn the couples dream into a nightmare. On January 19, 2016, Scream Factory™ is proud to present The Guardian, arriving for the first time on Blu-ray™. A film by William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The Hunted), the supernatural thriller stars Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero), Dwier Broan (Red Dragon) and Carey Lowell (License to Kill).
A must-have for loyal fans,...
- 12/3/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
There's a softer, but no less tenacious Mel Gibson in ''Forever Young, '' a fantasy romance which should garner both bricks and bouquets from viewers, depending on where they draw the cute/cutesy, sentiment/sediment line. Yet, even those who think ''Forever Young'' is complete slush will admit its holiday powers as a romance booster.
''Forever Young'' should present Warner Bros. with glowing numbers, mainly from female viewers. Powder room word-of-mouth that Gibson flashes his tush should alone account for an extra $10 million domestic. Even males, not turned away by the drippy title, but shrewdly attuned to its date-night potential, should find the film a pleasant enough endurance.
This time out Gibson's acting crazy not because he's dodging bullets or ducking Joe Pesci but because he's swoonily in love. It's 1939 and he's a daredevil test pilot who's madly in love. But he can't muster the courage to pop the big question and before he can get it out, the apple of his eye (Isabel Glasser) is run down by a big truck, reduced to a never-ending coma.
Rather than endure the torment, and hoping someday to reunite with her, Daniel agrees to be a guinea pig in a longevity experiment. He's put on ice to be resurrected someday in the future, but Army efficiency causes him to be lost for more than 50 years in a warehouse, accidentally freed in 1992 by a couple of mischievous kids.
With his resurrection, the film plummets into the familiar person-from-another-time-period genre, as pre-World War II Daniel encounters the 1990s. Indeed, ''Forever Young'' is largely a cop-out as a love story: It's only a love story in its beginning and ending; in between, it's a character-out-of-time quest movie -- Daniel encounters answering machines, ad predictum. Narratively, this romancer is so cinematically derivative it seems to have been something concocted by film schoolers who have only movie genres, rather than real life, to serve them as their romantic guideposts.
Nonetheless, screenwriter Jeffrey Abrams' facile love scenario is also stoked with winningly tender moments and revived by humorous flashes. While milking every scene to its maximum emotional effect, director Steve Miner manages to maintain a credible balance between the film's melodramatic excesses and its genuine heart.
Mel Gibson's moony performance is the film's highlight and saving grace -- a dewy, fiery combination that conveys perfectly the conflicted energy of love. Glasser is appropriately entrancing as his lost love. Jamie Lee Curtis does a nice turn as a love-starved single mother who is resilient enough to withstand Daniel's knight-in-shining-armor entrance into her life.
Tech contributions are superb. Cinematographer Russell Boyd's solidly golden hues and production designer Gregg Fonseca's sharp period sets kindle the romantic mood, while Aggie Guerard Rodgers' meat-and-potatoes costumes nicely convey an Americana feel to the film's diverse periods.
FOREVER YOUNG
Warner Bros.
An Icon Production
In association with Edward S. Feldman
A Steve Miner Film
Producer Bruce Davey
Director Steve Miner
Screenwriter Jeffrey Abrams
Executive producers Jeffrey Abrams, Edward S. Feldman
Director of photography Russell Boyd
Production designer Gregg Fonseca
Editor Jon Poll
Music Jerry Goldsmith
Costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Casting Marion Dougherty
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Daniel ... Mel Gibson
Claire ... Jamie Lee Curtis
Nat ... Elijah Wood
Helen ... Isabel Glasser
Harry ... George Wendt
Cameron ... Joe Morton
John ... Nicolas Surovy
Wilcox ... David Marshall Grant
Felix ... Robert Hy Gorman
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
''Forever Young'' should present Warner Bros. with glowing numbers, mainly from female viewers. Powder room word-of-mouth that Gibson flashes his tush should alone account for an extra $10 million domestic. Even males, not turned away by the drippy title, but shrewdly attuned to its date-night potential, should find the film a pleasant enough endurance.
This time out Gibson's acting crazy not because he's dodging bullets or ducking Joe Pesci but because he's swoonily in love. It's 1939 and he's a daredevil test pilot who's madly in love. But he can't muster the courage to pop the big question and before he can get it out, the apple of his eye (Isabel Glasser) is run down by a big truck, reduced to a never-ending coma.
Rather than endure the torment, and hoping someday to reunite with her, Daniel agrees to be a guinea pig in a longevity experiment. He's put on ice to be resurrected someday in the future, but Army efficiency causes him to be lost for more than 50 years in a warehouse, accidentally freed in 1992 by a couple of mischievous kids.
With his resurrection, the film plummets into the familiar person-from-another-time-period genre, as pre-World War II Daniel encounters the 1990s. Indeed, ''Forever Young'' is largely a cop-out as a love story: It's only a love story in its beginning and ending; in between, it's a character-out-of-time quest movie -- Daniel encounters answering machines, ad predictum. Narratively, this romancer is so cinematically derivative it seems to have been something concocted by film schoolers who have only movie genres, rather than real life, to serve them as their romantic guideposts.
Nonetheless, screenwriter Jeffrey Abrams' facile love scenario is also stoked with winningly tender moments and revived by humorous flashes. While milking every scene to its maximum emotional effect, director Steve Miner manages to maintain a credible balance between the film's melodramatic excesses and its genuine heart.
Mel Gibson's moony performance is the film's highlight and saving grace -- a dewy, fiery combination that conveys perfectly the conflicted energy of love. Glasser is appropriately entrancing as his lost love. Jamie Lee Curtis does a nice turn as a love-starved single mother who is resilient enough to withstand Daniel's knight-in-shining-armor entrance into her life.
Tech contributions are superb. Cinematographer Russell Boyd's solidly golden hues and production designer Gregg Fonseca's sharp period sets kindle the romantic mood, while Aggie Guerard Rodgers' meat-and-potatoes costumes nicely convey an Americana feel to the film's diverse periods.
FOREVER YOUNG
Warner Bros.
An Icon Production
In association with Edward S. Feldman
A Steve Miner Film
Producer Bruce Davey
Director Steve Miner
Screenwriter Jeffrey Abrams
Executive producers Jeffrey Abrams, Edward S. Feldman
Director of photography Russell Boyd
Production designer Gregg Fonseca
Editor Jon Poll
Music Jerry Goldsmith
Costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Casting Marion Dougherty
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Daniel ... Mel Gibson
Claire ... Jamie Lee Curtis
Nat ... Elijah Wood
Helen ... Isabel Glasser
Harry ... George Wendt
Cameron ... Joe Morton
John ... Nicolas Surovy
Wilcox ... David Marshall Grant
Felix ... Robert Hy Gorman
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 12/7/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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