Blast From the Past | 
| Actors: Steve Bean, Dave Foley, Brendan Fraser, Richard Gilbert-hill, Ted Kairys
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 908
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN4751D
ISBN: 0780626494
UPC: 794043475122
EAN: 9780780626492
ASIN: 0780626494
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1999
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
MEET ADAM WEBBER, BORN AND RAISED IN A BOMB SHELTER WITH HIS MAD SCIENTIST FATHER AND HIS SHERRY-SWILLING MOTHER. NOW, 35 YEARS LATER, ADAM IS ABOUT TO EMERGE INTO A BEWILDERING NEW WORLD WHERE HE'LL MEET EVE, A MODERN LOS ANGELES WOMAN. FEATURES: SCRIPT TO SCREEN, BLAST TRIVIA GAME, BINGO, AND MUCH MORE.
Amazon.com
Coasting on the successes of Gods and Monsters and George of the Jungle, Brendan Fraser turns in yet another winning performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy in which Pleasantville meets modern-day Los Angeles, with predictably funny results. Fraser stars as Adam, who was born in the bomb shelter of his paranoid inventor dad (a less-manic-than-usual Christopher Walken), who spirited his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek, in fine comic form) underground when he thought the Communists dropped the bomb (actually, it was a plane crash). Armed with enough supplies to last 35 years, the parents bring up Adam in Leave It to Beaver style with nary any exposure to the outside world. When the supplies run out, and dad suffers a heart attack, Fraser goes up to modern-day L.A. for some shopping and long-awaited culture shock. More of a cute premise with lots of clever ideas attached than a fully fleshed out story, Blast from the Past is also supposed to be part romantic comedy, as the hunky Adam hooks up with his jaded Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and tries to convince her to marry him and go underground. The sparks don't fly, though, because Silverstone is saddled with the triple whammy of being miscast, playing an underwritten character, and suffering a very bad hairdo. Fraser, however, carries the film lightly and easily on his broad, goofy shoulders, mixing Adam's gee-whiz innocence with genuine emotion and curiosity; only Fraser could pull off Adam's first glimpse of a sunrise or the ocean with both humor and pathos. Also winning is Dave Foley as Silverstone's gay best friend, who manages to make the most innocuous statements sound like comic gems. --Mark Englehart
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 I was very satified June 11, 2009
Beverly C. Sicherer (West Palm Beach, FL USA)
I was so happy to find an unused copy of this film. The seller enclosed a very nice note to contact him if I was unsatified. I was very satified with this transaction
Blast from the Past May 12, 2009
J. Cook (Michigan)
This movie never gets old. The retro 50's is so authentic, I watch with nostalgic amazement. Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if we could blast everyone with the past? Everyone that sees it enjoys it. A must own!
DVD May 3, 2009
Ronald B. Greenberg (Redding, CA USA)
Fast delivery, DVD was new. I will be ordering more DVD's from Amazon when they get the titles I am looking for.
 Poor Quality DVD April 26, 2009
K. Evans
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
View this movie as soon as you receive it. We waited until months later and it skips all over the place at the beginning and at the end. Tried it in different players, as well as my PC with no success. It made my Windows Media Player crash. I thought although it's new, maybe it has something on the back causing it to stick. When we tilted it to the light, there are tons of little circle blemishes all over it. Too late to return. Please view your movies within the return date.
Blast from the Past March 25, 2009
Pam C. Mullen
I love this movie and placed an order through Amazon.com. However, I have never received the dvd I ordered. My check went through but no dvd.
This was my first time to order through Amazon and it will be my last.
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