Blast from the Past (1999)
Brendan Fraser: Adam
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Quotes
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Adam : Oh my lucky stars! A Negro!
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Adam : Manners are a way of showing other people we care about them.
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Eve : What kind of wife are you looking for?
Adam : Oh um, well... one who's not a mutant.
Eve : [laughs] No dogs, huh. OK. Cool.
Adam : And if it's possible, I'd like to marry someone from Pasadena.
Eve : [laughs] Um, when do you need her by?
Adam : Two weeks?
Eve : Well, I can probably get you laid in two weeks, but to locate a non-mutant wife from Pasadena takes some time.
Adam : That's what I was afraid of.
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Adam : Uh, Eve, this is Adam. Look, I just wanted to thank you for everything you did for me. And I wanted to tell you that I... that uh... that I wish so many good things for you. I wish so hard that all of your dreams come true, and... and that's all I... and that's all.
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Adam : Say, mom?
Helen : Yes, dear?
Adam : I was wondering, you know, while I was up there and all, I was thinking, well you know, I was wondering if maybe I could meet a girl? I've been thinking about that a little. Just these last fifteen years or so.
Helen : Oh Adam, it would be wonderful if you could meet a girl. One who's not a mutant and hopefully comes from Pasadena. Nothing against Valley girls but in my day anyhow girls from Pasadena, I don't know, just always seemed a little bit nicer.
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[Adam, Eve and Troy are at the club, looking for a girlfriend for Adam. Adam spots a lovely young woman]
Adam : How about her?
Eve : No way.
Adam : No way? Why not? I, I think she's very attractive.
Eve : Adam! She's got 'bitch' written all over her. You do know what 'bitch' means, don't you?
Adam : [nodding] Well, well, yes, I do. I do have a dictionary. But I can't understand for the life of me why you would say that about her. Or why Cliff would say that about *you*!
[Troy stifles a laugh; Eve glares at him and then at Adam]
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[Adam is rehearsing Troy's advice as he approaches a young woman whom Troy thinks looks "sweet."]
Adam : Surprising, yet funny.
[Adam recalls his father's silly joke]
Adam : Well, I know a duck who bought some lip balm.
Adam : [nods to himself] Lie.
[he approaches Miss Sweet]
Adam : Hi.
[she looks him up and down, appraising, but replies disdainfully]
Miss 'Sweet', at Club 40 : Yes?
Adam : I was wondering if you could help me? I, um...
[she looks at him with definite disdain]
Adam : ...seem to have lost my Congressional Medal of Honor around here... somewhere.
Miss 'Sweet', at Club 40 : [bursts into laughter] Now, that's a great one!
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Eve : Where are you parked?
Adam : I came on a bus.
Eve : Why does that not surprise me.
Adam : I dunno. Why doesn't that sunrise you?
Eve : Well, I guess because I'm a little psychic. I have this thing.
Adam : Oh, that's nice.
Eve : Yeah, let me guess something. This is your first visit to La-La-Land. You're staying somewhere in Hollywood because like an idiot you thought that would be an exciting place to stay. Am I right so far?
Adam : So far?
Eve : Yes, I'm right?
Adam : Right.
Eve : I knew it. So anyhow, you get on a bus and before you know it you're stuck in the San Fernando Valley without a clue, which brings us to here. Correct again?
Adam : Again.
Eve : Where are you staying? The Holiday Inn.
Adam : Oh. Yes! Yes! The Holiday Inn. That's exactly right.
Eve : See, I'm psychic. I mean not completely but pretty much. Pretty good, huh?
Adam : No, that was amazing!
Eve : Yeah I know. Thanks.
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[the doors have unlocked, and Helen and Adam are thrilled; Calvin slightly less so]
Adam : Do we just go on up?
Calvin : No, son. Now is the time we must be at our most cautious. We wait for night.
Helen : Oh, shit!
[Helen, realizing Adam has heard her, immediately covers her mouth]
Calvin : Helen Thomas Webber! Maybe we have been down here a little too long. Pardon her French, son.
Adam : "Shit" is French?
Calvin : [uncomfortably] Well, it's archaic French. It's a sixteenth century colloquialism, meaning, roughly, good.
Helen : Your father's right.
Adam : Well. "Shit"!
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Adam : [Adam is with his parents at the new house] Dad, I don't know how to tell you this. And I was going to wait a while, but I think... Dad, there was no bomb. A plane crashed into our backyard. I looked it up in old newspapers.
Calvin : You're sure?
Adam : Positive. The Soviet Union collapsed without a shot being fired. The Cold War is over.
Calvin : That's what everybody believes?
Adam : Yes, sir. It's true.
Calvin : What? Did the politburo just one day say, "We give up?"
Adam : Yes. That's kind of how it was.
Calvin : Uh-huh.
Calvin : My gosh, those Commies are brilliant! You've got to hand it to 'em! "No, we didn't drop any bombs! Oh yes, our evil empire has collapsed! Poor, poor us!" I bet they've even asked the West for aid! Right?
Adam : Uh, I think they have.
Calvin : Hah! Those cagey rascals! Those sly dissemblers! Those, uh... They've finally pulled the wool over everybody's eyes!
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Troy : Can I ask you some questions?
[Adam nods]
Troy : When did Alaska become a state?
Adam : 1959.
Troy : Okay, and who owned it before we did?
Adam : Russia.
Troy : And when did we get it from them?
Adam : 1867. Seward's Folly. We purchased it for $7.2 million. Tidy sum then as well as now. I'm quoting my father, of course.
Troy : Alright, what's the state capital?
Adam : Juneau.
Troy : Hello? It's Anchorage! Gotcha!
Adam : Mm-mm, sorry. That's the largest city.
[Troy leaves the room]
Adam : Where's he going?
Eve : He's going to check your answers on his computer.
Adam : He has a computer?
Eve : Sure.
Adam : In the house?
Eve : No, actually, it's in the back yard. Of course it's in the house. It's in there.
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Adam : Excuse me, but I'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't take the Lord's name in vain again.
