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The Philadelphia Experiment

6.1PG

MovieScience Fiction, Adventure19841h 42m

The experiment that should never have happened 41 years ago...is still going on.

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

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Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

Directed by
Stewart Raffill
Written by
William Gray, Michael Janover, Wallace C. Bennett, Don Jakoby
Genres
Science Fiction, Adventure, Thriller
Released
October 5, 1984
Runtime
1h 42m
Status
Released
Language
English
Countries
United States of America
Studios
New Pictures Group, New World Pictures, Cinema Group Ventures
Budget
$9,000,000
Box office
$8,103,330
  • Michael ParéDavid Herdeg
  • Nancy AllenAllison Hayes
  • Eric ChristmasDr. James Longstreet
  • Bobby Di CiccoJim Parker
  • Louise LathamPamela
  • Kene HollidayMajor Clark
  • Joe DorseySheriff Bates
  • Michael CurrieMagnussen
  • Stephen TobolowskyBarney
  • GGary BrocketteAdjutant / Andrews
  • DDebra TroyerYoung Pamela
  • Miles McNamaraYoung Longstreet
  • Ralph ManzaOlder Jim
  • JJames EdgcombOfficer Boyer
  • Glenn MorshowerMechanic
  • Rodney SaulsberryDoctor
  • VVivian BrownMa Willis
  • SStephanie FaulknerTV Newscaster #1
  • EEd BakeyPa Willis
  • Michael VillaniTV Newscaster #2

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  • CinemaSerf★ 6March 13, 2025
    Sadly, this has dated really quite badly but it’s still quite a decent story. With the US Navy working in the middle of WWII to find a way to make allied shipping invisible to their Nazi enemy, they think they might have found a gadget to do just that. Off goes the USS “Eldridge” but before the exercise can be completed, two of it’s crew disappear and find themselves transported forty years into the future. Meantime,…Read more

    Sadly, this has dated really quite badly but it’s still quite a decent story. With the US Navy working in the middle of WWII to find a way to make allied shipping invisible to their Nazi enemy, they think they might have found a gadget to do just that. Off goes the USS “Eldridge” but before the exercise can be completed, two of it’s crew disappear and find themselves transported forty years into the future. Meantime, “Longstreet” (Eric Christmas) - the very scientist who devised the technology in the first place, is looking to try to retrieve the men. Meantime, lost souls “David” (Michael Paré) and “Jimmy” (Bobby Di Cicco) are having a few problems of their own in 1984 as the latter man has a bit of an incident at hospital and they realise that they are going to need to contact the scientist and hope his future self, if he’s even still alive, believes their story and helps them repatriate to their own timeline. There’s some thought gone into the script and the plot here, and though I felt the acting all a bit flat, it still manages to use it’s visual effects imaginatively as it supposes just how time travel might occur and at how it might impact on two young men who had rarely ever left home. There’s a little bit of romance for “David” with the helpfully gullible “Allison” (Nancy Allen) and also just an hint of plausible science that attempts to visualise just how it all might have worked, as opposed to some “TARDIS” style arrangement where you just change the scenery. It has a made-for-television look to it, but it’s worth a watch.

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