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Blast from the Past

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Blast from the Past
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PG13,1hr 51min
Genres:
Comedy,Romance
Released:
February 12, 1999
Director:
Hugh Wilson
Distributor:
New Line Cinema
Starring:
Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken  ...more
Synopsis: In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his Donna Reed-esque wife, Helen (Sissy Spacek), in Los Angeles. In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane crashed into the Webber's yard. Mistaking the blast for "the big one," the Webbers moved into their elaborate bomb shelter to wait out the half-life of radioactive fallout. In the shelter, now a sort of time capsule, Calvin and Helen conceived and raised their son Adam (played as an ... Full Synopsis
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Susan Wloszczyna, 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] Full Review
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out of 100
Based on 19 critic reviews
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