- For The Move's song of the same name, see California Man (song).
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| Directed by | Les Mayfield |
| Produced by | George Zaloom Hilton A. Green Michael Rotenberg |
| Written by | George Zaloom Shawn Schepps |
| Starring | Sean Astin Brendan Fraser Pauly Shore Megan Ward Robin Tunney Michael DeLuise |
| Music by | J. Peter Robinson |
| Cinematography | Robert Brinkmann |
| Editing by | Michael Kelly Eric A. Sears |
| Distributed by | Hollywood Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 22, 1992 |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Gross revenue | $40,693,477 |
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Encino Man, released in Europe as California Man, is a 1992 comedy film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Brendan Fraser, Sean Astin and Pauly Shore. The plot revolves around two geeky teenagers from Encino, Los Angeles, California played by Astin and Shore, who discover a caveman in their backyard frozen in a block of ice. The caveman, played by Fraser, has to learn to live in the new 20th century. Along the way he teaches them one or two things about life. It was followed by a TV movie sequel, Encino Woman, in 1996. The MPAA gave the film a PG rating for "mild language and sensuality".
Plot
Dave Morgan (Sean Astin) and Stoney Brown (Pauly Shore) are two high school outcasts who, while digging in Dave's backyard to make a swimming pool, find and thaw out a block of ice containing a man from the Ice Ages. Dave and Stoney name him Link (Brendan Fraser) and try to pass him off as a regular teenager (as Estonia exchange student Linkavitch Chomofsky) and Link becomes seriously popular at school and this causes Dave and Stoney to become popular in the process. But the stuck up and snobby Matt Wilson (Michael DeLuise), the school's most popular guy, after being annoyed at Dave and Stoney for getting friendly with his girlfriend Robyn Sweeney (Megan Ward), 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.
Cast
- Sean Astin as Dave Morgan
- Brendan Fraser as Link
- Pauly Shore as Stoney Brown
- Megan Ward as Robyn Sweeney
- Robin Tunney as Ella
- Michael DeLuise as Matt Wilson
- Patrick Van Horn as Phil
- Dalton James as Will
- Rick Ducommun as Mr. Brush
- Jonathan Ke Quan as Kim
- Mariette Hartley as Mrs. Morgan
- Richard Masur as Mr. Morgan
