When the time-triggered locks on the Webber's shelter at last open, Adam is sent out to replenish supplies and find a nice, non-mutant girl from Pasadena in order to repopulate the world with upstanding citizens.

Now, for the first time, Adam is about to leave the safety of the underground for the overwhelming complexity of the '90s and Eve is about to get a whole new perspective on life. Her life has been a series of dead-end jobs, shallow boyfriends and dashed hopes. Eve, on the other hand, grew up in a rapidly changing Los Angeles and emerged as a woman suspicious of intentions, savagely smart about survival and pretty darned uncertain about the possibilities of love. Meanwhile, he waited and waited for a chance to see the sky. While his father taught him about science, baseball and avoiding Communists, his mother taught him about dancing, manners and charming girls. For 35 years, Adam was raised on Jackie Gleason re-runs, Perry Como records and dreams about life on the surface. In the midst of the fearsome Cuban Missile Crisis, the Webbers witnessed a blast they thought must be the Big One, but was actually a plane crashing into their yard.So it was that they ensconced themselves in their elaborately engineered bomb shelter to wait out the half-life of radioactive contamination.

The son of brilliant-but-paranoid scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and picture-perfect suburban wife Helen (Sissy Spacek), Adam's bizarre upbringing was the result of a major tactical mistake. Adam was born in a steel bunker buried in his parent's backyard, an unforeseen product of the 'duck-and-cover' era taken to its extreme. When these two polar opposites begin to attract, the result is a wondrous chain reaction. Alicia Silverstone is Eve, a woman of her times. Brendan Fraser is Adam, a man out of time. woman the other an innocent, naïve young man cocooned since 1962 in a bomb shelter. At its center are two children of the Nuclear Age one a savvy, cynical, modern L.A. Blast From The Past is a romantic comedy about the fallout of falling in love.

Backyard nuclear fallout shelter