Blast from the Past Page #3

Synopsis: Adam Webber (Brendan Fraser) has lived his entire life in confinement in a fallout shelter in Pasadena, Calif. When the Webber family's rations of food and supplies grow thin, Adam's eccentric father, Calvin (Christopher Walken), sends him on a dangerous restocking mission. When Adam emerges from the Webber family's subterranean refuge for the first time, he finds that rumors of a nuclear apocalypse were totally false -- and meets gorgeous Eve Rustikov (Alicia Silverstone).
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
PG-13
Year:
1999
112 min
1,279 Views


Ron pushes his way through the crowd.

RON:

Calvin! Hey, Calvin!

(pointing over his shoulder)

Kennedy's going toe-to-toe with

Khrushchev on the television!

Calvin immediately heads for the family room. Others

follow.

INT. FAMILY ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

Everyone is huddled around the JFK TV press conference.

There seems to be a lot of smokers. Helen appears

shortly, wearing a hot pad mitten on each hand.

JFK:

...this sudden, clandestine decision

to station strategic weapons for the

first time outside of Soviet soil, is

a deliberately provocative and

unjustified change in the status quo

which cannot be accepted by this

country.

Calvin cuts a knowing look at Helen who dutifully returns

it.

EXT. JET - NIGHT

The plane swoops over the Valley and we see the

spectacular lights of L.A. sprawl. There is a TRAIL OF

SPARKS coming from the jet's engine.

INT. JET COCKPIT

The plane is shaking terribly and the pilot is having a

very hard time controlling it.

TOWER:

Wolf One -- say intentions.

PILOT:

I've got secondaries of an engine fire

and I'll need to find a clear area to

eject.

TOWER:

Roger, Wolf One. Can you make it to

the ocean?

EXT. JET

The trembling plane circles to the west.

INT. FAMILY ROOM

Return to TV.

JFK:

...we will not prematurely or

unnecessarily risk the cost of

worldwide nuclear war, in which even

the fruits of victory would be ashes

in our mouth. But neither will we

shrink from the risk at any time it

must be faced.

INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT/ EXT. HOUSE, MOMENTS LATER

To Helen's embarrassment, Calvin is ushering all the

guests to the front door. Helen is passing out hats and

purses. She and Calvin speak simultaneously - somewhere

in the middle we cut outside.

CALVIN:

I'm sorry everyone, but given this

extraordinary turn of events, I think

it's prudent that we cut the evening

short. I'm sure this Cuban thing will

resolve itself, but in the

meantime...I'd suggest taking a

prayerful watch-and-wait stance!

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Hugh Wilson

Hugh Hamilton Wilson (born August 21, 1943) is an American movie director, writer and TV showrunner. He is best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place, and as the director of the popular movie comedies Police Academy and The First Wives Club. more…

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