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Late For Dinner’ delivers syrupy but sweet plot
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What would happen if you
wont awakonwi (mm .1 1 ryo
jjcnic sloop of twenty-nine
years ns If ono day had
passed7 What if, also, after all
those years, you returned to
your friends and loved ones
who iissumixi you 10 or uranr
Well, nsidi! from I ho modii.nl improb
uliilitlirs, you’d prolxibly encounter u f;iir
nmoimt of cullum shock. oxtnrisivo uuxli
nil n.iprob- |_^_-aa|r..
abilities,
you'd proba
bly encounter
a fair amount
o f i it It u r e
shook. exten
sive medical
prodding and
lucrative of
fers from tab
loids and telo
vision movie
producers to
lull your sto
ry
II, however,
you're In the
middle ol a
movie, you’re
more likely to
get involved in
lice romance
that you left
behind all
those years
ago.
Such is the
c ase with Lulr
lor Dirmri It
involves an
unemployed
New Mexic an
milkman. Wit
Husband (Ui Kin Unmoor) arid his
; iti as a button hut slow willed brother
in-law. Frank (Fetor Derg).
After lining unjustly accused in the
• hooting death of tile henchman of a cru
el land developer, these brothers high
tail il away from homo. They end up in
l’i nimi.i, California, where Willie has to
top because of the gunshot wound ho
suffered in the shooting.
Thi-v ctonvoninntly land at the door
si p of a doctor who is oxporinionting
with cryogenic research (the freezing of
ham ins in the hopes of bringing them
! ; k to life .it a later time). The doctor
talks Frank into submitting Willie and
himself to the process by promising that
they will wake up fine and that Frank
will have access to a new kidney that he
;11 t!s due to a disease he suffers from.
Twenty-nine years later, they nre
brought out of their frozen state by a
fre k ac cident. It is lucre! that the picture
CourtMy •Hvoio
Colleen I lynn is reunited with her long-lost uncle, Peter Berg (left), and her lather, Brian Wintrier
starts to accomplish what it originally
sets out to do.
We follow the boys back to Santa I'e,
where they left their loved ones. Of
i nurse, things aren’t as they left them.
Kidaiming their lives after almost three
decades is ,i w• } iv task.
Sure, the nw . hokey and more
ll. in ,1 little j;r able. but on llu; level
it reaches lor, it's qailn successful.
I his is thank? costly to some assured
"’riling \vh; h . r ,ifistic within tin? con
text of theciintr.1, ,| premise, and win
ning, perform mi tVimmer and Mar
cia (.av Hardi : ,vho plavs Joy, W'itn
ntur's wife.
Slit? has had , productive! life since the
accident and lit. ..ippily with her boy
frientl. It is th" vmpt by Wimmer to
gel his old life hat k that works best in
the movie lie retains his l')50's ideals
about the world and uses this mind set
to warm the heart of his wife, who is a
j n d e d t li a n
when ho left.
Sure, this is
as syrupy as
t ti a y c o m o.
hut it works,
riid only big
problem with
the movie is
the decision
to concentrate
on the set-up
to the real
plot for so
long
Not that it's
any more or
less realistic
than, say, a
time machine,
but to spend
so much time
on that prem
ise only in
vites criti
cism.
Hut on tin?
whole, this is
a warm trib
ute to love,
1 a m i 1 y a n d
friendship
! he kind of
•ontlc? film that hasri t boon soon in sorno
iino.
By Lucas J Gutman
[T.?rwnk1 C* /'.tnbutor
Coi«rtt*«y PtKJtO
Marcia Gay Harden and Brian Wimmer try to recapture their love alter 29 yearn
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