it 1939 and test pilot daniel mccormick ( mel gibson ) have the world by the tail . he have a terrific job fly b 25 and a devoted soul mate ( isabel glasser ) and a long time pal and confidant ( george wendt ) . in fact and he have everything . almost . despite his ability to confront danger and he can not look his girlfriend in the face and propose . he always decide to wait till tomorrow to pop the question but in one terrible instant he run out of tomorrow . tragedy take his sweetheart away accord to the film official synopsis . with his sweetheart in a coma and and give almost no chance of recovery and mr. gibson ask to be cryogenically frozen for one year . gibson doesn not want to suffer through her demise and but ask to be thaw out if she recover . this be just one of many motivational problem with this film character . why isn not he at her bedside . youre forever wonder why . a forever young proceeds . anyway and gibson awakens in 1992 and and move in with young elijah wood ( a nat cooper ) and his mom and nurse jamie lee curtis ( a claire ) . after the camera lovingly show his nude profile and a very fit and good look gibson find some clothing to wear and and go to use a pay phone and outside a ralph supermarket . incredibly and gibson use the 1992 push button pay phone successfully . probably and young wood have some change in his pocket and and gibson use a futuristic telephone at the 1939 world fair and or something . i can not manage those pay phone after one night sleep and never mind 53 year . nicolas surovy do well a the nice guy who provide an escape route for ms. curtis and son and should they lose gibson . repeatingly tell the kid to shut up and michael a. goorjian have the second best scene in the movie and give the tree house fly lesson gibson give wood ( but and learn how to use your wing flap and rudder pedal properly and before try to fly a real plane ) . and and cute little veronica lauren and recently sarah in dark shadow and be definitely worth serenade . forever young ( 12/11/92 ) steve miner ~ mel gibson and elijah wood and jamie lee curtis .