Blast From the Past |  | Actors: Steve Bean, Dave Foley, Brendan Fraser, Richard Gilbert-Hill, Ted Kairys
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  179 reviews
Sales Rank: 1769
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
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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| Features:
| • | Brendan Fraiser, Alicia Silverstone, Blast, | | • | Christopher Walken, Fall out shelter, Bomb, | | • | 35 years underground, baseball cards, pasadena |
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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
Product Description
A romantic comedy about a naive man who comes out into the world after being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years.
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 Awsome January 30, 2010
Lance Taylor (Salt Lake City. Utah, USA)
It was awsome! A very funny send up of the time of the Cuabn missle crisis. Good choice of actors, Brendan Fraser and Alicia Siverstone have the comedic skills and the romantic chemistry to pull off a fantastic performance.
Love this movie!!! November 21, 2009
K. MASON (Connecticut)
This is a great movie. It is accurate as to the way of life and the fears of the 50's. I have watched it many times and will watch it many times more, always laughing.
A fun way to waste 90 minutes October 3, 2009
Andrew F (Seattle, WA)
Without Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken as the parents, this movie would not have been anywhere near as funny as it is. In the beginning, Spacek and Walken, eccentric in their own ways, take a ridiculous premise and make it believable enough that you could let yourself buy into the storyline. Brendon Fraisor does a decent turn as the son, though his acting verges on a one dimensional note. Alicia Silverstone does the cute love ineterest well enough, but her performance is not as entertaining as in clueless. These is an exceedlingly likeable film with likeable characters, and where even the ex-boyfriend isn't that bad. A fun movie!
a lot of fun,all time favorite August 28, 2009
Bruce W. Turner Sr. (Jacksonville Fla.)
This movie is a BLAST , love it a lot.Didn't do great at the box office.My sister-in-law watched it last week,thought she would laugh her self to death,,,,,,,try iy you'll like it,,,grand children liked it too,,,
one of my favorites July 21, 2009
Barry Hartmann (new orleans)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this movie is so under-rated. i love it. whenever i'm feeling blue this movie will put a smile on my face!
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