Blast from the Past

    Blast from the Past
    1999

    Synopsis

    Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers 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.

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    Cast

    • Brendan FraserAdam
    • Alicia SilverstoneEve
    • Christopher WalkenCalvin
    • Sissy SpacekHelen
    • Dave FoleyTroy
    • Joey SlotnickSoda Jerk
    • Rex LinnDave
    • Deborah KellnerMiss Sweet
    • Nathan FillionCliff
    • Jenifer LewisDr. Aron

    Recommendations

    • 75

      USA Today

      Blast feels positively timely if not downright positive about the human race's ability to endure. Forget radiation. Fraser and folks actually survive three decades-plus of Perry Como music. [12 February 1999, Life, p.8E]
    • 75

      San Francisco Examiner

      Spacek and Walken are pure comic energy.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      As a date movie or for a solo night out, Blast from the Past offers more than standard romantic comedy fare.
    • 70

      Newsweek

      Spacek is brilliantly funny, slowly transforming Helen from a nervous 60s housewife into a liquored-up one. I could have watched her in the vibrating fat-burner, eyes closed, lazily gripping a martini glass, for hours.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      As pleasantly plastic as its retro-chic sets.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      Fortunately, the Webber shelter is a jaunty monument to kitsch, and the Webbers themselves are an appealingly batty crew.
    • 50

      Variety

      A time-warp comedy that starts out kinda "Pleasantville" and gets pretty Tepidsville, Blast From the Past expends scant imagination or style on a fun premise that seems an open invitation to both.
    • 50

      Chicago Reader

      Demands that we see as coincidental if not ironic the ease with which Fraser cuts a rug at a swing club when he's hopelessly naive about everything else that's being revived in the 90s when he emerges.

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