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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Character

Effortless, warm, comic and resolved.

  • effortlessdemanding
  • warmbleak
  • gravecomic
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • classical in formformally daring

Who loves it, who doesn't

The Comfort SeekerThe Comfort Seeker: loved by 33The SincereThe Sincere: loved by 1The Sincere: disliked by 21 / 2The IronistThe Ironist: loved by 22The FormalistThe Formalist: disliked by 20 / 2The Prestige HunterThe Prestige Hunter: loved by 11The ProvocateurThe Provocateur: disliked by 10 / 1loved (4★+)disliked (2.5★ or less)

23 profiled raters. Loved most by The Comfort Seekers; disliked most by The Sinceres.

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