from New Line Cinema
Directed by
Hugh Wilson
Starring
Brendan Fraser (Adam Webber)
Christopher Walken (Calvin Webber)
Sissy Spacek (Helen Webber)
Alicia Silverstone (Eve Rustikov)
Scott Thomson (Junkie)
Dave Foley (Troy)
Deborah Kellner (Miss Sweet)
Nathan Fillion
Written by
Bill Kelly
Hugh Wilson
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Hugh Wilson directs Brendan Fraser as a man out of time. As
a child, his paranoid father (Christopher Walken) locked him
in a bomb shelter, fearing WWIII. Thirty years later, he emerges,
acting like it is still the sixties. Alicia Silverstone may play
Eve, the 90s woman whom he falls for. Sissy Spacek will play
his mother. Dave Foley and Nathan Fillion will also star. Previously
titled Looking For Eve. (New Line)
Blast From The Past is a romantic comedy about the fallout
of falling in love. At its center are two children of the Nuclear
Age - one a savvy, cynical, modern L.A. woman; the other an innocent,
naive young man cocooned since 1962 in a bomb shelter. Brendan
Fraser is Adam, a man out of time. Alicia Silverstone is Eve,
a woman of her times. When these two polar opposites begin to
attract, the result is a wondrous chain reaction. Adam was born
in a steel bunker buried in his parent's backyard, an unforeseen
product of the "duck-and-cover" era taken to its extreme.
The son of brilliant-but-paranoid scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher
Walken) and picture-perfect suburban wife Helen (Sissy Spacek),
Adam's bizarre upbringing was the result of a major tactical
mistake. In the midst of the fearsome Cuban Missile Crisis, the
Webbers witnessed a blast they thought must be the Big One, but
was actually a plane crashing into their yard.
So it was that they ensconced themselves in their elaborately
engineered bomb shelter to wait out the half-life of radioactive
contamination. For 35 years, Adam was raised on Jackie Gleason
re-runs, Perry Como records and dreams about life on the surface.
While his father taught him about science, baseball and avoiding
Communists, his mother taught him about dancing, manners and
charming girls. Meanwhile, he waited and waited for a chance
to see the sky. Eve, on the other hand, grew up in a rapidly
changing Los Angeles and emerged as a woman suspicious of intentions,
savagely smart about survival and pretty darned uncertain about
the possibilities of love. Her life has been a series of dead-end
jobs, shallow boyfriends and dashed hopes. Now, for the first
time, Adam is about to leave the safety of the underground for
the overwhelming complexity of the '90s - and Eve is about to
get a whole new perspective on life. When the time-triggered
locks on the Webber's shelter at last open, Adam is sent out
to replenish supplies and find a nice, non-mutant girl from Pasadena
in order to repopulate the world with upstanding citizens.
Adam's hapless search in the brave new world of homeless people,
adult book stores and all-night supermarkets leads him smack
into Eve. At first, she just can't believe this guy who says
"Ma'am," thinks seersucker jackets are stylish, and
has never seen color television, is for real. 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? But the question
still remains: can these two find happiness in the real world,
or will their sparks send Adam back underground?
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