The Adam Project Pop Culture References

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‘80s References, Easter Eggs and Pop Culture Moments in The Adam Project

The new Ryan Reynolds Netflix movie The Adam Project is a fun flick with an awesome amount of references to the sci-fi genre.

‘80s Moments

The name “The Adam Project” is similar to “The Manhattan Project” “Project X” “My Science Project.”

Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo play Adam’s parents; Garner and Ruffalo both appeared in the ‘80s themed movie 13 Going on 30.

Older Adam fights with what younger Adam refers to as a light saber.

Says to his younger self “We’ve seen Terminator, right?”

Beach looks like the scene in War Games where David and Jennifer find Falken.

Single mom trying to date while dealing with difficult kids is a familiar ‘80s movie situation

Younger Adam looking for his dog in the woods was very ET

Pop Culture Moments

A student with a sweatshirt that says John Travolta with Nicholas Cage’s face (Face/Off)

Kid knows how to deal with a situation because of playing video games

Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana and Jennifer Garner have all played super heroes

Dogs name is Hawking, as in Stephen Hawking

The playing catch scene is like Field of Dreams

The older and younger Adams sit in front of a Pine Ridge motel sign, this seems to be a reference to something. (Don’t know!)

The Adam Project Easter Egg

The sports equipment box they opened to get the baseball equipment out had Deadpool and the Hulk stickers on it (Reynolds and Ruffalo’s super hero characters).

Every Song in The Adam Project

“Gimme Some Lovin” by The Spencer Davis Group

“Time After Time,” by Cyndi Lauper the Muzak version, plays in the pharmacy.

“Let My Love Open the Door” by Pete Townshend is Adam’s dads favorite song.

“Good Times Bad Times” by Led Zeppelin

Boston’s “Long Time”

Where Can You Stream The Adam Project?

The Adam Project is a Netflix movie so you’ll find it exclusively on Netflix and not in theaters.

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