Forever Young is a 1992 American film with elements of romance, drama and science fiction, directed by Steve Miner. In 1939, Captain Daniel McCormick is a United States Army Air Corps test pilot. He distraught over the death of his girlfriend so he volunteers to be a subject in a risky experiment and allows himself to be cryogenically frozen for 12 months. After so may rise and fall, he realizes that that his lover from long ago was only in a coma.