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Blast From the Past

New Line
1999
PG-13
112 minutes
Widescreen 2.35:1 and full frame 1.33:1
Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Interactive menu
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Close-captioned
Extras: "Love Meter Game," cast and crew biographies/filmographies; DVD-ROM: script-to-screen screenplay access, "Bomb Shelter" games, print-out swing dance steps, Web links, more.
Suggested Retail Price: $24.98
Director: Hugh Wilson
Writers: Bill Kelly and Hugh Wilson
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, David Foley, Sissy Spacek, Christopher Walken.

Description: Comedy about a young man (Brendan Fraser), raised in a bomb shelter since the 1960s -- his father thought WWIII had started -- and what happens when he resurfaces in 1999 and meets up with modern culture, including a hip Eve (Alicia Silverstone). Despite poor reviews and a weak boxoffice, give this one a good look. You'll be pleased and surprised with the sweet performances and story line. There's gentle humor, sympathetic characters, and satirical pokes at religion, hippies and conservative politics.

There are very few extras: cast and crew bios and a rather weak "Love Meter Game" that -- in mimicking old-fashioned amusement park games -- asks you to place your thumb on the screen and then click enter, randomly "rating" you as a lover: from dud, stink bomb or fizzler to atomic or 50 megaton lover.

Image/Sound: Smooth imaging, with bright, primary colors, though there is a bit of grain. The sound is not earthshaking but is clear and well-mixed.

All DVDs are screened on a reference Onkyo DV- S717 third-generation DVD player.

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