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BLAST FROM THE PAST (1999) |
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MORGAN'S RATING |
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| Brendan Fraser is Adam Webber, the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers in their bomb shelter for thirty-five years, Adam Webber must venture out into present-day Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself. He meets the beautiful, but troubled Eve, who reluctantly agrees to help him out. Soon enough, they both begin to fall for one another. |
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| Brendan Fraser (Adam Webber), Alicia Silverstone (Eve Rustikoff), Christopher Walken (Calvin Webber), Sissy Spacek (Helen Thomas Webber), Dave Foley (Troy), Joey Slotnick (Soda Jerk), Dale Raoul (Mom), Hayden Tank (Adam age 3 1/2), Douglas Smith (Adam, age 11), Ryan Sparks (Adam, age 8), Don Yesso (Jerry), Scott Thomson (Young Psycho), Ted Kairys (Navy F86 Pilot), Rex Linn (Dave), Cynthia Mace (Betty), Harry S. Murphy (Bob), Wendel Meldrum (Ruth), Hugh Wilson (Levy), Donovan Scott (Ron). |
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SHE WAS A WOMAN OF THE WORLD, HE HAD NEVER BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK. |
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION |
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DIRECTOR: Hugh Wilson.
WRITERS: Bill Kelly and Hugh Wilson.
PRODUCERS: Renny Harlin and Hugh Wilson.
CO-PRODUCER: Mary Kane.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sunil Perkash, Claire Rudnick Polstein and Amanda Stern.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Steve Dorff.
DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema. |
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QUOTES |
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Adam: Oh my lucky stars! A Negro! |
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Adam: Manners are a way of showing other people we care about them. |
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| RELEASE DATE: February 12th, 1999 (USA) |
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Eve: Where are you parked?
Adam: I came on a bus.
Eve: Why does that not surprise me.
Adam: Oh no, why doesn't that surprise you.
Eve: Well, I guess because I'm a little psychic. I have this thing.
Adam: Oh, that's nice.
Eve: Yeah, let me guess something. This is your first visit to Lala-land. You're staying somewhere in Hollywood because like an idiot you thought that would be an exciting place to stay. Am I right so far?
Adam: So far?
Eve: Yes, I'm right?
Adam: Right.
Eve: I knew it. Somehow you get on a bus and before you know it you're stuck in the San Fernando Valley without a clue, which brings us to here. Correct again?
Adam: Again.
Eve: Where are you staying? The Holiday Inn.
Adam: Yes! The Holiday Inn. That's exactly right.
Eve: See I'm psychic. I mean not completely but pretty much. Pretty good, huh?
Adam: No, amazing.
Eve: Yeah I know. Thanks. |
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| BOX OFFICE OPENING: $9.1 million (USA) |
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| BOX OFFICE RESULT: $26.4 million (USA) |
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| BUDGET: $35 million (USA) |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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| "The movie is funny and entertaining in all the usual ways, yes, but I was grateful that it tried for more: that it was actually about something, that it had an original premise, that it used satire and irony and had sly undercurrents." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times |
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| "Spacek and Walken are pure comic energy!" -- Jane Ganahl, San Francisco Examiner |
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| "Mediocre comic romance!" -- Desson Howe, Washington Post |
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| "Inventive, fascinating!" -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
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| "Entertaining and funny!" -- Kristan Ginther, Box Office Magazine |
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| "There's not even a spark of chemistry between Fraser and Silverstone, while the jokes are painfully strained." -- Elizabeth Weitzman, Film.com |
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