Blast from the Past

Name: Blast from the Past
Released: 1999-1-1
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley

Blast from the Past

PG-13
1h 46m
1999

58%

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After 35 years in a bomb shelter, Adam Webber is finally going outside to play. When a man raised in a 1950s era bomb shelter emerges into the outside world for the first time--to find a nice nonmutant girl with whom to repopulate the earth--meets a savvy, cynical modern woman, sparks fly, opposites attract and the result is a wondrous chain reaction in this romantic comedy for the nuclear age--Blast from the Past. Adam's hapless search in the brave new world of homeless people, adult bookstores and all-night supermarkets leads him directly into Eve. She's suspicious, smart about survival and uncertain of the possibilities of love. Her life has been a series of dead-end jobs, shallow boyfriends and dashed hopes. But the more Eve watches Adam approach the world with wide eyes, comic miscomprehension, joyous delight and a deliciously sweet innocence, the more she begins to find herself falling in love?

Director:

Hugh Wilson

Producer:

Renny Harlin, Hugh Wilson, Amanda Stern, Sunil Perkash, Claire Rudnick Polstein

Writer:

Bill Kelly

Cast:

Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

58%

Critics Consensus: Cute idea, but not consistently funny.

Reviews

615 Film

Cory Woodroof

Fraser’s lab puppy phase is still one of the most endearing modes of anyone in the modern studio system.

...an irresistible premise that's generally employed to entertaining (if somewhat erratic) effect...

Blast is finally a squandered opportunity, a lot of situation with very little comedy.

Blast From the Past saves its best for first.

Fraser is the sweet, goofy engine that drives this movie. The script doesn't do enough with his reactions to a world that bears little relation to the Cold War planet Adam has been told about, but Fraser still manages to suggest volumes.

August 15, 2017

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