I really enjoyed the movie “Blast from the Past.” Brendan Fraser plays Adam, a young man whose parents are a little on the odd side. The year is 1962 and they’ve been watching the news reports on the Cuban Missile Crisis on television. They’ve got a bomb shelter all ready to go, and when an airplane crashes in their yard, they think they’re being bombed and head for cover. They close an airlock on the shelter, believing that they have been irradiated, and they plan to stay underground until all the nuclear rays have dissipated.
Adam’s mother (Sissy Spacek) was pregnant with him at the time, and she has the baby in the shelter. Delivered by his father (Christopher Walken) little Adam only knows life underground. His forward thinking parents put school supplies, food, clothing – everything they would need for decades into the shelter. Believing that the world above them has been melted down into a nuclear puddle, they live quite happily until the day when they realize they are running out of supplies. It’s been thirty-five years since Adam was born, and it’s time to replenish. They decide to send Adam up into the world to restock, and also to find a nice girl who hasn’t been mutated so he can bring her underground and keep the family line going.
When Adam goes above ground, he is completely blown away by everything he sees. Having been raised in a 1960s atmosphere, the clothing styles, hair styles, and language are beyond anything he could have imagined. He brings with him his baseball card collection, thinking to sell them to get the money for supplies. He goes into a card shop and there meets Eve (Alicia Silverstone) a street-wise girl who helps him get a good deal on his cards. She also agrees to help him get the supplies he needs for his bunker in exchange for keeping one of the most valuable cards for herself.
It’s hysterical to watch Adam’s reaction to life in our times. He has a purity about him that’s refreshing in the world of vulgar language and behavior. You do need to be aware that there is language in the film, some of the worst of it taking place when he meets Eve for the first time. If you’re willing to put up with that, or if you can find an edited version, the other elements of the film are simply charming. This movie is rated PG-13.
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