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Blast from the Past
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
1999 · Directed by Hugh Wilson · 112 min · Drama · Romance · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
She'd never met anyone like him. He's never met anyone... Period.
Plot
In the San Fernando Valley in 1962, eccentric scientist Dr. Calvin Webber believes a nuclear war with the Soviet Union is imminent, so he builds a secret fallout shelter beneath his backyard. Alarmed by the Cuban Missile Crisis, Calvin takes his pregnant wife Helen into the shelter.
An F-86 Sabre suffers an unexpected mechanical failure and crashes into their house above. Calvin assumes the worst and activates the shelter's time-locks for 35 years. Because the house was destroyed, the public assumes the family was killed, and the property is abandoned.
Adam grows up in the shelter, educated by Calvin. Above ground, first a diner opens, then a pizzeria, and finally the punk club Purgatory, as the suburb becomes an inner-city ghetto. A youth named Melker works there through all its iterations; by 1995, he has become a middle-aged alcoholic living in the now-condemned club.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Hugh Wilson, Bill Kelly
- Cinematography: José Luis Alcaine
- Edited by: Don Brochu
- Music: Steve Dorff
- Production design: Bob Ziembicki
- Produced by: Hugh Wilson, Renny Harlin
Cast
- Brendan Fraser as Adam
- Alicia Silverstone as Eve
- Christopher Walken as Calvin
- Sissy Spacek as Helen
- Dave Foley as Troy
- Joey Slotnick as Soda Jerk
- Dale Raoul as Mom
- Hayden Tank as Adam Age 3 1/2
- Douglas Smith as Adam Age 11
- Ryan Sparks as Adam Age 8
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Latin, English, French, German
- Studios: Midnight Sun Pictures, New Line Cinema, Forge
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $40,263,020
- Themes: isolation, atomic bomb, bunker, shelter, lighthearted, blast from the past, adoring, amused, familiar
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