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Late for Dinner [Blu-ray]
(W.D. Richter, 1991)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Castle Rock Entertainment Video: Kino Lorber
Disc: Region: 'A' (as verified by the Oppo Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:33:05.621 Disc Size: 20,436,540,596 bytes Feature Size: 20,337,819,648 bytes Video Bitrate: 25.92 Mbps Chapters: 9 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: April 14th, 2015
Video: Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio English 1642 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1642 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Subtitles: None
Extras: • None
Bitrate:
Description: Late For Dinner is a charming, critically acclaimed old-fashioned romantic comedy that leaps through time into your heart. In the innocent days of 1962, Willie (Brian Wimmer, TV's China Beach) marries Joy (Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock), the girl of his dreams. But the young lovers' hopes are shattered when a sleazy land developer (Peter Gallagher, The Idolmaker) frames Willie and his best friend Frank (Peter Berg, The Last Seduction). On the run from a crime they didn't commit, the two buddies end up caught in the biggest chill ever: guinea pigs in a dangerous cryonics experiment. Frozen Alive! And they don't thaw out until 1991! Willie and Frank haven't aged a day but everything has changed. Even Willie's only love, who's now in her fifties. But if love does indeed conquer all, Willie and Joy will have the chance to share their once-in-a-lifetime romance… twice. The second and final film directed by writer W.D. Richter, the first was cult classic, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
The Film:
W.D. Richter directed this comedy-drama in the spirit of Back to the Future and Peggy Sue Got Married. The film opens in Santa Fe in 1962, where Willie (Brian Wimmer) and Joy Husband (Marcia Gay Harden) are a cute couple living in familial bliss with their five-year-old daughter. When evil land-developer Bob Freeman (Peter Gallagher) tries to turn their bliss into blight, a gun goes off and Willie flees to Los Angeles with his dim-witted brother-in-law Frank (Peter Berg), convinced he has committed murder. They run into crazed scientist Dr. Chilblains (Bo Brundin), who cryogenically freezes the fugitives. Twenty-nine years later they are defrosted, and Willie, who has only aged a day, goes back to Santa Fe with Frank to seek out his wife and daughter, discovering they have aged and gone on with their lives without him. Excerpt from MRQE located HERE
The time-traveling of Frank and his brother-in-law Willie (Brian Wimmer)
is also prompted by a run-in with a corrupt land developer (made very
funny by Peter Gallagher). Thinking themselves crime suspects after a
confrontation with him, they are eager to escape their 1962 set of
problems. The screenplay, by Mark Andrus, sends them straight into the
path of a cryonics expert looking for guinea pigs, and the next thing
they know Willie and Frank are thawing out in the future. Once there,
they marvel at things like fast food, male telephone operators and
automatic teller machines ("Willie! That wall here just gave that
lady money!")They also decide that rap and heavy-metal music must be
playing at the wrong speed.
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. The early 90's comedy sci-fi, and eventually sentimental, pastiche Late for Dinner has made it to Blu-ray from the Kino-Lorber label. The single-layered image quality is quite good with a supportive bitrate and a clean print source. There is some pleasing tightness and depth - I appreciated the pastel colors representing the era (late 50's early 60's). It is transferred in the, authentic, 1.85:1 aspect ratio. I noticed no no noise to speak of. Pretty solid overall. This Blu-ray provides a respectable 1080P presentation without any real areas of dynamic specialty but consistent HD visuals.
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Audio :Audio comes in the form of a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel at 1642 kbps and there are a few effects that shine with a smattering of depth via the lossless. The score is by David Mansfield (Heaven's Gate) and helps carry the film nicely for a while. There are no subtitles offered and m y Oppo has identified it as being a region 'A'-locked.
Extras : None.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze April 7th, 2015
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