Blast from the Past (film)
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Blast from the Past is a 1999 romantic comedy film starring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken.
Tagline: She was a woman of the world. He had never been around the block.
Christopher Walken's character is a brilliant, eccentric, and paranoid Caltech nuclear physicist (see mad scientist) during the 1960's Cold War. Thinking the Russians have attacked resulting in a nuclear holocaust, he goes into hiding with his family for thirty years in a fallout shelter he has secretly constructed when a plane crashes into their Pasadena home. The father finally emerges in 1999, where he finds society in disarray and wishes his wife and grown son (Fraser) to stay in hiding, but suffers from heart pains. Fraser's character, Adam Webber, who is naive but well-learned, is sent for supplies and help, hence, begins his adventures. Much of the humor in the film is derived from him being unaccustomed to the lifestyle of the present and relying on out-dated methods, finding awe in simple things of modernity. He eventually meets Eve (Silverstone), after trying to sell his father's classic baseball cards, but she stops him from being cheated. Later, she helps him with the supplies and his search for a non-mutant wife from Pasadena, but they fall in love in the process. Eventually, his father and mother live in a home at the surface that their son has had constructed with the wealth he has acquired from selling bonds worth great value owing to their antiquity. Only his father is informed that the catastrophe they went into seclusion for was in fact a plane crash for fear his mother would be rendered in a fragile state as she yearns for freedom. The film finishes with Fraser's parents at peace with their newfound freedom from containment (although the father ponders the physical implications of the accident in their new home's backyard) and Adam and Eve finding their love in one another.
