Blast from the Past
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Directed by	Hugh Wilson
Produced by	Sunil Perkash Claire Rudnick Polstein Amanda Stern
Written by	Bill Kelly Hugh Wilson
Starring	Brendan Fraser Alicia Silverstone Christopher Walken Sissy Spacek Dave Foley Joey Slotnick
Music by	Steve Dorff
Cinematography	José Luis Alcaine
Editing by	Don Brochu
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	January 27, 1999
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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Taglines:

• She was a woman of the world. He had never been around the block.
• She'd never met anyone like him. He's never met anyone... Period.
• After 35 years in a bomb shelter, Adam Webber is finally going outside to play.

Plot outline

Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) is a brilliant, eccentric, and paranoid Caltech nuclear physicist (see mad scientist), living the stereotypical happy 1960s life during the Cold War. His extreme fear of a nuclear holocaust leads him to build an enormous self-sustaining fallout shelter beneath his suburban Los Angeles home. One night, while he and his pregnant wife, Helen, are entertaining guests, when a family friend comes to inform him that John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev are getting into a debate, they turn on their television, and watch in horror. When the Cuban Missile Crisis begins, they order their guests to leave, and they head down into the shelter. Meanwhile, a USAF pilot has engine problems with his F-86 Sabre; he is ordered to eject, believing his jet will crash into the Pacific Ocean. Instead, the plane crashes into the Webber household home, leaving their friends and family to believe the family has died, and the family to believe the unthinkable has happened and that they are the sole survivors of a nuclear war. Suddenly, Mrs. Webber goes into labor, and gives birth to a baby boy, who they name Adam (for somewhat obvious reasons). During the roughly 35 years they are down in the shelter, the world above drastically changes, while the Webber's life remains in the 1960 era. Adam is taught in several languages, all school subjects, and other things, such as dance, boxing, and many other things. Adam is given his father's baseball card collection, and shares in IBM, and AT&T. The father finally emerges in 1997, where he finds society in disarray and wants his wife and grown son (Fraser) to stay in hiding, but suffers from heart pains. Adam, who is naïve but well-educated, is sent for supplies and help, thus beginning his adventures. Much of the humor in the film is derived from his being unaccustomed to the lifestyle of the present (such as using the term negro, and believing shit is a French compliment), and relying on outdated methods, finding awe in simple things of modernity. He eventually meets Eve (Silverstone) after trying to sell his father's classic baseball cards, but she stops him from being cheated. Later, she helps him with the supplies and his search for a "non-mutant" wife from Pasadena, while Eve's homosexual roommate (Dave Foley) offers commentary as Adam and Eve fall in love in the process. Eventually, Adam's father and mother move into a home at the surface that their son has had constructed with the wealth he has acquired from selling bonds worth great value owing to their antiquity. 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Trivia and Goofs

• The name of Adam and his girlfriend Eve are a play on Adam and Eve.
• This movie was being played on TBS the first night R.J. had sex with Ben.
• All of Adam's "valuable" baseball cards are actually reprints that are worth only a few dollars in total.
• The license plate on Eve's Geo Metro changed in different scenes.
• As Calvin turns on the projector connected to the TV set, we begin to see a backwards "6" from the familiar "Academy Leader" countdown; but the next number, a backwards "5" is from a modern countdown leader used by Digital Media Corp.
• At the swing bar, Adam and Eve's drinks keep switching sides on the table.
• After the screen reads "Fall 1991" the scene is set in a bar. In the background, a young boy can been seen playing a Primal Rage arcade console. Primal Rage was not released until 1994.
• When Adam is one year old, his mother walks to the service elevator with him to show his father that he can stand up "All by himself". He is picked up by Calvin and doesn't actually stand alone. Also, his mother is heard saying, "Come on, you can do it" but her mouth does not move.
• After Wolf 1 ejects from his fighter plane, we see the stick thrown right, but the plane banks and turns to the left.

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External link

• Blast from the Past at the Internet Movie Database