Most of this handsomely filmed Rip Van Winkle takeoff goes predictably but entertainingly from point A to point B. But locating somebody, anybody, from Dan's remote past becomes crucial when the medical side effects of his long hibernation set in. Dan ends up charming Nat's single mom, a nurse (Jamie Lee Curtis), with his old-school gentlemanly manners and bravery.
The disoriented Dan, finding the ID left behind by 10-year-old Nat (Elijah Wood), shows up at the boy's house. They accidentally release him, then run in terror. Two mischievous boys living near the Army base find the warehoused, forgotten metal capsule in which McCormick is frozen. When she's hit by a car and falls into a coma, Dan, an orphan, declares he has nothing else to live for, so he volunteers for a groundbreaking experiment in suspended animation carried out by his scientist buddy. government test pilot, fears only one thing: how to propose marriage to his patient childhood sweetheart. "You're holding my heart." In 1939, Dan McCormick (Mel Gibson), a dashing U.S.