Blast from the Past, Best scene, Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Dave Foley, Jenifer Lewis
In 1962, eccentric American scientist Dr. Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) believes nuclear war with the Soviet Union is imminent, and builds a secret fallout shelter beneath his backyard. Alarmed by the Cuban Missile Crisis, Calvin takes his pregnant wife Helen (Sissy Spacek) into the shelter. When a fighter jet loses control and crashes into the house, Calvin assumes the worst and activates the shelters timelocks for 35 years. Helen gives birth to Adam, who is immersed in culture up to 1962, including TV reruns of I love Lucy and The Honeymooners and listening to Perry Como and Dean Martin. A diner is built above the shelter, where Melcher (Joey Slotnick) works for Mom (Dale Raoul) as a soda jerk. The diner becomes a pub as the suburban neighborhood deteriorates throughout the decades into an inner city ghetto. Mom eventually gives the pub to Melcher; by 1995, he is an alcoholic living in its abandoned remains. When the shelter unlocks in 1997, Calvin mistakes the blighted neighborhood for
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