Eve and the last gentleman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Eve and the last gentleman |
| Original title | Blast from the past |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hugh Wilson |
| script |
Bill Kelly Hugh Wilson |
| production |
Renny Harlin Hugh Wilson |
| music | Steve Dorff |
| camera | José Luis Alcaine |
| cut | Don Brochu |
| occupation | |
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Eve and the Last Gentleman is an American comedy film starring Brendan Fraser , Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Walken that was directed by Hugh Wilson in 1997.
action
Los Angeles 1962: During the Cuban Missile Crisis , the scientist Calvin Webber and his heavily pregnant wife Helen are looking for shelter in a self-made nuclear bunker under his house when a plane accidentally crashes over their house. The house is destroyed, the temperature sensors melt. He then believes that a nuclear war has started and locks the bunker with a time lock for 35 years. The entire house has been recreated in the bunker, there is a tank in which fish are bred, ship batteries provide electricity, and the supplies are stored in a kind of “supermarket”.
Since Calvin kept the construction of the bunker a secret, no one suspects that the Webbers existed underground. Helen gives birth to her son Adam, who grows up to be a gentleman in the bunker . But the time underground stands still. When the time lock opens after 35 years, Calvin comes to the surface in a protective suit and does not recognize the world: Your property has been newly built, but the entire district has degenerated into a poor district. When he receives an offer from a transsexual prostitute, he believes that the radiation from the supposed nuclear explosion has mutated all of humanity. Back in the bunker, overwhelmed by the events, he suffers a fit of weakness. Then Adam is sent out to get new supplies. Adam is completely overwhelmed in the urban jungle of the 1990s. Fortunately for him, he meets the pretty Eve, who recognizes the value of the baseball trading cards that Adam is carrying. She helps him sell the trading cards and buy supplies, but is paid by him. Eve falls in love with the helpless Adam, but doesn't believe him that he lives in a bunker. It wasn't until her best friend found Adam's stock stocks from the 1950s that she realized that Adam's story was true and that Adam is now very wealthy because of the stocks. Adam introduces Eve to his parents and asks them to stay in the bunker for a while while he, with Eve's support, has the parents' house rebuilt on a new piece of land. Eventually he takes his parents to their new house and explains to his father that there never was a nuclear war and that the Soviet Union collapsed. Calvin, however, believes that this collapse is just a clever move by the "communists". The film ends with Calvin measuring the garden for a new bunker.
criticism
"An unusual romantic comedy comedy with convincing actors, which captivates with original and fresh ideas and confidently builds on the qualities of the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s."
Web links
- Blast from the Past in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eve and the last gentleman in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eve and the last gentleman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .