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. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide