Blast from the Past (film)
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| Directed by | Hugh Wilson |
| Produced by | Hugh Wilson Amanda Stern Renny Harlin |
| Screenplay by | Hugh Wilson Bill Kelly |
| Story by | Hugh Wilson |
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| Music by | Steve Dorff |
| Cinematography | José Luis Alcaine |
| Edited by | Don Brochu |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $40,263,020 |
Blast from the Past is a 1999 American romantic comedy film based on a story and directed by Hugh Wilson, and starring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek and Dave Foley.
In 1962, Dr. Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken), an eccentric scientist who, like so many people at the time, thinks that a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is imminent, has built a large, fully functional fallout shelter in his backyard deep underground. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, thinking the conflict could escalate, Calvin takes his pregnant wife Helen (Sissy Spacek) into the fallout shelter as a precaution. When a fighter jet flying over loses control, the pilot bails out and the plane crashes into their house, causing a large explosion; Calvin, thinking the worst has happened, sets and activates the shelter's locks (designed not to open for 35 years). Everyone assumes the entire family was killed in the accident, as no one knew of Calvin's secret fallout shelter.
Calvin's wife Helen gives birth to a boy, whom they name Adam. Adam grows up being taught and exposed to all culture up to 1962, such as watching reruns of The Honeymooners and listening to Perry Como and Dean Martin. During their 35 year stay in the shelter, a small diner ("Mom's") is built on the site where their house stood, and a young man named Melcher (Joey Slotnick) works for Mom as a soda jerk. The diner (which later becomes a pub) is shown throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 90s, as the neighborhood deteriorates from suburban, to inner city ghetto, complete with abandoned, graffiti-marked buildings, adult bookstores, and the homeless, prostitutes, and addicts as its residents. Eventually, Mom gives the pub to Melcher, who lives in the abandoned remains (in 1995), an alcoholic.
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