Blast From the Past
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- Synopsis
- In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his Donna Reed-esque wife, Helen (Sissy Spacek), in Los Angeles. In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane crashed into the Webber's yard....
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- Director(s)
- Hugh Wilson
- Distributor(s)
- New Line
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 111 min.
Critic Reviews
It would be nice to say that Blast From the Past is, but it ain't exactly. Half-blast is more like it.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Blast feels positively timely if not downright positive about the human race's ability to endure. Forget radiation. Fraser and folks actually survive three decades-plus of Perry Como music. [12 February 1999, Life, p.8E]Read the full review
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