History Film / ForeverYoung

* TreehouseOfFun: Nat has a treehouse in his backyard, and is comfortable enough for Daniel to sleep in when he initially hides there. After being welcomed in Nat's house, Daniel goes on to create a plane cockpit set-up inside the treehouse so that he can give Nat piloting lessons.

* WhamShot: Claire when she notices that Nat isn't in the car and puts two and two together that he went aboard Daniel's bomber.

* CannotSpitItOut: Daniel has difficulty giving Helen a marriage proposal. It gets tragic when shortly after his latest failed attempt, Helen gets hit by a truck outside the diner.

* SecretHandshake: Daniel and Finley reveal to have it early in the movie when the latter tells Daniel that his project is ready and they excitedly exchange odd hand gestures before going for a big ManHug.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Daniel's age catches up with him and he's a feeble old man by the end of the film. However, he's finally reunited with Helen and they'll spend their final years together, and if the Government sceintists will study and perfect the cryogenic pod to avoid the RapidAging side-effect, Daniel will go down in history for serving as an important stepping stone in the development of hypersleep tech that will greatly help the fields of medicine and space exploration, thus his whole ordeal won't be a SenselessSacrifice.]]

* NoAntagonist: The FBI tracking Daniel down once they can be obstructive and at times intimidating, but they are actually one of the more benign examples compared to others. They act in what they feel is best for the situation now that a forgotten experiment has finally resurfaced, [[spoiler: and once Claire gives them Finley's notes of the cryogenic pod they stop the chase and allow Daniel to go reunite with Helen in the ending, which proves to be the real climax as his RapidAging makes his piloting harder. As an additional PetTheDog Cameron reassures Claire that they'll make sure Nat is safely retrieved]].

* LittleStowaway: [[spoiler: Against the adults' orders, Nat sneaks aboard Daniel's B-25 bomber and helps him pilot it when the RapidAging cripples him further.]]

* NoAntagonist: The FBI tracking Daniel down once they can be obstructive and at times intimidating, but they are actually one of the more benign examples compared to others. They act in what they feel is best for the situation now that a forgotten experiment has finally resurfaced, [[spoiler: and once Claire gives them Finley's notes of the cryogenic pod they stop the chase and allow Daniel to go reunite with Helen in the ending, which proves to be the real climax as his RapidAging makes his piloting harder]].

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: When Daniel sees a picture of Helen with a two year old Susan Finley, he claims it's impossible until she drops him TheReveal: "Helen's alive".]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Nat clearly grows an affection for Daniel viewing him as the father figure that he has missed ever since his own dad died, especially when he encourages him to serenade and confess his feelings to Alice, his crush.

* ParentalSubstitute: Nat clearly grows an affection for Daniel viewing him as the father figure that he has missed ever since his own dad died.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: When Daniel sees a picture of Helen with an two year old Susan Finley, he claims it's impossible until she drops him TheReveal: "Helen's Alive".]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Harry Finley's daughter Susan informs Daniel that her father has died while protecting his cryogenic pod from a fire that happened in TheForties.

* TreehouseOfFun: Nat has a treehouse in his backyard, and is comfortable enough for Daniel to sleep in when he initially hides there. After being welcomed in Nat's house, Daniel goes on to create a plane cockpit set-up inside the treehouse so that he can give Nat piloting lessons.

* ConvenientComa: [[spoiler: Helen actually managed to recover from the car accident that put her in a real bad coma the doctors had severe doubts she'd awaken from, and is still alive.]]

* RapidAging: [[spoiler: Daniel is frozen for several decades. After he's thawed out, his age quickly catches up to him. It's all good, though; by the end of the film he's the same age, and reunited with, his LoveInterest whose apparent death 50 years ago triggered his decision to be frozen in the first place]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Daniel's age catches up with him and he's a feeble old man by the end of the film. However, he's finally reunited with Helen and will spend their final years together, and if the Government sceintists will study and perfect the cryogenic pod to avoid the RapidAging side-effect, Daniel will go down in history for serving as an important stepping stone in the development of hypersleep tech that will greatly help the fields of medicine and space exploration, thus his whole ordeal won't be a SenselessSacrifice.]]

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Daniel is a man from 1939 who awakens in TheNighties, and struggles to make his way in this future world. Nat makes sure to give Daniel his history book so that he can catch up.
* HumanPopsicle: Daniel volunteers for a suspended animation experiment that's supposed to last a year, but is forgotten about until 53 years later. Upon revival he is still young, [[spoiler: but [[RapidAging ages rapidly]] to his "real" age by the end of the film.

A 1992 science fiction-romantic drama directed by Creator/SteveMiner and written by Creator/JJAbrams (credited as Jeffrey Abrams) that has a US Air force test pilot (Creator/MelGibson) going into suspended animation after his girlfriend (Creator/IsabelGlasser) goes into a coma and wakes up over fifty years later.

* HumanPopsicle: Captain Daniel [=McCormick=] volunteers for a suspended animation experiment that's supposed to last a year, but is forgotten about until 53 years later. Upon revival he is still young, but ages rapidly to his "real" age by the end of the film. [[DownerEnding And that's supposed to be a happy ending?]] Maybe bittersweet: he did it because his girlfriend was in a coma and believed to be as good as dead from being hit by a car. [[spoiler:He meets her, alive, in the end]].
* NoImmortalInertia: [=McCormick=] was cryogenically frozen for 50 years, and didn't age during that time. However, the effect wore off and he eventually aged, looking the same as he would have if he hadn't been frozen. (Which worked out well for him, since he would then be reunited with his lost love, who was now an old woman).
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Averted. Finley left behind detailed notes [[spoiler: which Claire gives to the FBI in exchange for them stopping their pursuit of Daniel]]
* RapidAging: Daniel is frozen for several decades. After he's thawed out, his age quickly catches up to him. It's all good, though; by the end of the film [[spoiler:he's the same age, and reunited with, his LoveInterest whose apparent death 50 years ago triggered his decision to be frozen in the first place]].

* HumanPopsicle: Captain Daniel [=McCormick=] volunteers for a suspended animation experiment that's supposed to last a year, but is forgotten about until 53 years later. Upon revival he is still young, but ages rapidly to his "real" age by the end of the film. [[DownerEnding And that's supposed to be a happing ending?]] Maybe bittersweet: he did it because his girlfriend was in a coma and believed to be as good as dead from being hit by a car. [[spoiler:He meets her, alive, in the end]].
* NoImmortalInertia: [=McCormick=] was cryogentically frozen for 50 years, and didn't age during that time. However, the effect wore off and he eventually aged, looking the same as he would have if he hadn't been frozen. (Which worked out well for him, since he would then be reunited with his lost love, who was now an old woman).

A 1992 science fiction-romantic drama directed by Creator/SteveMiner that has a US Air force test pilot (Creator/MelGibson) going into suspended animation after his girlfriend (Creator/IsabelGlasser) goes into a coma and wakes up over fifty years later.