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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
Blast From The Past
99 minutes (12) EV
Director: Hugh Wilson
review by Jeff Young
Post nuclear age SF is full of A-bomb bunker tales. In this
enjoyable romantic comedy, innocent Brendan (The Mummy) Fraser emerges from
buried refuge, fully grown, 35 years after his panicked scientist father and pregnant
mother locked themselves away from the world during the Cuban missile crisis. Now
it's 1997 and the educated but wide-eyed Fraser is sent out for provisions and to
find "a nice girl from Pasadena." Needless to say, Blast From The Past wrings
plenty of good jokes from this scenario. With veterans Christopher Walken and Sissy
Spacek as the half-crazed parents, and Alicia (Clueless) Silverstone as sassy
Eve to Fraser's Adam, this sweet natured fable is a winner despite its inevitable
feelgood conclusion.
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