Brendan Fraser stars along with Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek in this "what-if" high concept comedy about an innocent coming out of a bomb shelter after thirty five years of life with only his parents and "Honeymooners" and "I Love Lucy" reruns. One can almost hear the pitch to the studio in this one, but director Hugh Wilson delivers the satire and commentary on both the early sixties commie paranoia and degenerative fin de seicle society. The subtext of the comedy, i.e. that if you were raised with only decent parents and no outside influences (and your dad happens to be a slightly wacky genius) you might actually be a great person lends weight to what might otherwise be a bit of fluff. Walken and Spacek are brilliant as usual, Dave Foley, formerly of Kids in the Hall fame, is hilarious as the wise roomie of Alicia Silverstone. The side stories especially of the gradually rundown soda jerk, are wonderful. Worth the rental and then some. Even if you watch it only for the sherbet-colored world of 1962.