Late for Dinner

Year: 1991

Runtime: 99 mins

Language: English

Director: W.D. Richter

DramaScience FictionRomance

After being cryogenically frozen in the 1960s for urgent medical care, two young men are pursued by police as they panic over their sudden disappearance. When they awaken thirty years later they find a bewildering, unfamiliar world. The story follows their struggle to adapt to a society that has moved on, while police have long yet abandoned the chase.

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