Film

Blast from the Past 1999

Directed by Hugh Wilson

  • Drama, Romance, Comedy
  • 112 min
  • PG-13

She'd never met anyone like him. He's never met anyone... Period.

Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.

DramaRomanceComedyisolationatomic bombbunkershelterlightheartedblast from the pastadoringamusedfamiliar

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Effortless, warm, comic and classical in form.

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