Encino Man

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Original title: Encino Man
Year: 1992
Running time: 88 min.
Country: United States
Director: Les Mayfield
Screenwriter: Shawn Schepps (Story: Shawn Schepps , George Zaloom)
Music: J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography: Robert Brinkmann
Cast: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise, Mariette Hartley, Richard Masur, Dalton James, Patrick Van Horn, Rose McGowan
Producer: Hollywood Pictures
Genre: Comedy. Fantasy
Synopsis / Plot: Dave Morgan and Stoney Brown are two high school outcasts who, while digging in Dave's backyard for a swimming pool, find and thaw out a block of ice containing a man from the Ice Ages. Dave and Stoney try to pass him off as a regular teenager and Link becomes seriously popular at school and this causes Dave and Stoney to become popular in the process. But Matt Wilson, the school's most popular guy, after being pissed at Dave and Stoney for getting friendly with his girlfriend Robyn Sweeney, discovers Link's real identity and it's a question if whether anyone will believe his story that Link is really from the Ice Ages.

Awards: 1992: Razzie Awards: Worst New Star (Pauly Shore)

1992: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated Most Promising Actor (Brendan Fraser)

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