Watch trailer for The Final Countdown
Watch trailer
The Final Countdown
Opens on December 7
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Don Taylor Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1980
Starring: James Farentino, Katharine Ross, Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Ron O'Neal
World War II meets science fiction in The Final Countdown, which has just been released by Blue Underground in a brand new 4K restoration!
Captain Matthew Yelland (Kirk Douglas) commands the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz, which is conducting routine patrols off Hawaii in 1980. A bizarre electrical storm, unlike anything seen before, temporarily knocks out the crew, and when they come to, things are strange. Very strange, including Jack Benny’s voice on the radio. That’s written off as nostalgia programming, but the crew can’t make any normal communications with the outside world…and then they spot mint condition Japanese Zero planes. As the evidence mounts, the captain and crew ultimately realize that, hard as it is to believe, they’ve gone back in time…to December 6, 1941.