![]() ![]() The Webber family believes Adam is this, because they've been living in their underground fallout shelter since the Cuban Missile Crisis, unaware that there wasn't actually a nuclear apocalypse above ground. Bilingual Bonus: The conversation in French between Adam & Sophie doesn't have any subtitles, but the actors sell it well enough that the audience knows that she's flirting with him before Eve cuts it short.Beware the Nice Ones: Adam may be a kind hearted manchild, but he's also a very good boxer, as Eve's ex boyfriend finds out.Apocalypse How: The Webbers believe that at least a class 0 has taken place, as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis.And Starring: Alicia Silverstone gets this honor.After the End: Parodied: The world is fine, but the Webbers-who have been isolated for the past 35 years-think that the apocalypse has happened due to how different society is from how they remember it.As it happens, he does find love with a woman named Eve, but the apocalypse never actually happened. Calvin and Helen name their son "Adam" as they assume he will have to repopulate the Earth with any healthy female survivor he can find after the apocalypse. ![]() The '90s: As Roger Ebert points out, this movie turns Pleasantville on its head, casting a decidedly unflattering light on modern life as seen from the perspective of a traditional nuclear family.Unsurprisingly, Adam emerges from the shelter acting like a character from Leave It to Beaver. This informs the Webbers' entire lifestyle. The '50s: Even though the first scene takes place in 1962, these tropes are still in full effect as The '60s politically and culturally began with events in 1963 and '64.She agrees to help Adam with his goals, works with her gay housemate Troy ( Dave Foley) to acclimatize him to the current times, and gradually finds herself falling for him. Along the way, Adam meets a cynical young woman named Eve (Silverstone), who-after initially being seriously weirded out by him, and despite not knowing the details of his background-comes to see him as an eccentric but basically harmless young man. survived the blast, Adam sets out to gather supplies and find a (non-mutant) wife, so he can return to the shelter and seal it up again. Once it becomes clear that some people have indeed, umm. Cue major culture shock when first Calvin and then the now-adult Adam (Fraser) venture out into the world to determine the state of "post-apocalypse" civilization. While Adam's parents diligently spent decades teaching him everything they could think of, this proves woefully inadequate for getting around in a radically changed surface world. Shortly afterward, Helen gives birth to a son named Adam.įast forward to The '90s (more specifically, 1999), when the vault unlocks. Calvin-convinced that the explosion was the result of a nuclear missile, and lacking communication with the outside world due to having left the radio above ground-locks the vault door, sealing them inside for 35 years. As fate would have it, a fighter jet crashes onto their property while they're down there, destroying the house and leading the neighbors to presume the Webbers dead. When the Cuban Missile Crisis presents America with a very real and immediate threat of nuclear war, the Webbers move into the bomb shelter. ![]() Calvin Webber ( Christopher Walken) and his pregnant wife Helen ( Sissy Spacek) are a little caught up in the tension of the Cold War Calvin, a brilliant but off-kilter physicist, has built an elaborate bomb shelter under the backyard of their suburban Los Angeles home and stocked it with 35 years of supplies. No, this isn't that one video game it's Blast from the Past, a 1999 romantic comedy written and directed by Hugh Wilson and starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone. Now imagine that, after many years, circumstances force you to say goodbye to your former home. ![]() Imagine spending all your life in a fallout shelter, completely devoid of contact with the outside world. ![]()
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