The Philadelphia Experiment
by Stewart Raffill
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Actor: Bobby Di Cicco, Eric Christmas, Louise Latham, Michael Par?, Nancy AllenDirector: Stewart Raffill
Brand: STARZ/SPHE
Producer: Douglas Curtis
Writer: Charles Berlitz
Writer: Don Jakoby
Writer: Michael Janover
Writer: Wallace C. Bennett
Writer: William Gray
Writer: William L. Moore
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of The Philadelphia Experiment
DVD Review: Hard to find movie
Summary: 5 Stars
My nephew has been looking for the movie for a couple of years, he asked me if I could find it & you had it!! He is thrilled.DVD Review: Don't miss
Summary: 4 Stars
For what it's worth, this is a great movie. Special effects at the time werent exactly Transformers quality nor was the director a Micheal Bay....but if you can look beyond the rotoscoped hand illumination and the cut layout in the worm hole scenes, make popcorn and grab a soda, your in for a treat.
Story is good as well as the acting although none of the actors are mainstream (or still around). Based on "actual events", the Philadelphia Experiment takes you through the events that happened while the battle ship was "invisible" on that fateful day in 1943.
The project was designed to cloak objects and make them undetectable to radar but intead, opened a wormhole to the future knocking off the main characters in the process, sending them to 80's.
The only thing I would have like to see to improve the movie, other than having it set anytime but the horrible 80's, is to make it closer to the story of what "actually happened". Although the government will not and probably never will admit to the experiment, the story and couriosity stands true. The thought of time travel or opening a wormhole is fascinating to all of us dorks and geeks out there, whether its true or absolute make believe.
Either way, its just a movie. Don't go in expecting it to change your life or anything but don't miss out on a great movie none the less.
P.S. If you catch the right ones, REDBOX has this movie for a dollar! You can't beat that!
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Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 1 Stars
A little disappointing when compared with my memory of first seeing it on its original release, but this is only because the special effects and concept are now somewhat dated. However, it was still good to see Michael Pare oozing wartime sex appeal in a modern day society, one of the attractions of the plot. The warship-trapped-in-time concept was less thrilling than the original, but has stood the test of time for younger viewers without the sophisticated taste of higher tech expectations. A good watch for say a 10 year old but not that intriguing for adults. Worth a look though, for old times sake, after giving it to your nephew for christmas.DVD Review: The Philadelphia Experiment More Plausible A Premise Than You Think
Summary: 4 Stars
Not much has ever been noted about research done by New Zealand native and former pilot Bruce Cathie that strongly substantiated the feasibility of what was referred to as both 'Project Invisibility' and, later, 'The Phoenix Project/Project Rainbow'. Cathie, in his eye-opening book Harmonic 695, demonstrated that Einstein had actually COMPLETED his Unified Field Theory and that there was an unmistakable mathematical factor in successful atomic tests also correlating with UFO sightings - so much so that his life has treaded a very, very fine line that neither fellow UFO researcher Dr. Morris K. Jessup (appeared to have committed suicide, but the evidence points to murder) and likely even Nikola Tesla, whose death was in fact under equally mysterious circumstances (it's said by some involved with the project that he was killed for having knowledge of Einstein's reticence concerning application of the UFT and, recognizing just how dangerous the experiment truly was, sabotaged the earliest trials) apparently could walk.
In David Hatcher Childress' equally eye-opening book, Anti-Gravity and the Earth Grid, Cathie reviews legendary researcher Ivan T. Sanderson's 'Vile Vortices' as well as geodesic mapping by Buckminster Fuller and the Russians, going on to mathematically prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a corresponding grid line running exactly between Philadelphia and the Norfolk/Newport News area which would have directly facilitated the event; by virtue of Tesla's groundbreaking work with interference fields and variable pulsed electrical current, the Eldridge and its crew could indeed have been teleported from Philly to Norfolk and back again as purported. As a last note, I can tell you that my own belief this experiment actually occurred was greatly reinforced by a chance conversation with a fellow co-worker some years ago whose father had worked closely with quantum physicist (his wave and matrix mechanics tenets directly related to Tesla's postulations) and master mathematician John Von Neumann (upon whom the movie's Longstreet character is more or less based). He told her of Von Neumann's extensive work on the Philadelphia Experiment.....
Description of The Philadelphia Experiment
The experiment that should never have happened 41 years ago...is still going on.Philadelphia, 1943: A top-secret experiment is underway to make U.S. Navy ships invisible to enemy radar, but something goes horribly wrong, and the Battleship Eldridge disappears. Two sailors jump overboard...and are mysteriously transported 41 years into the future. On the run and trapped by the past, can they stop the experiment that has torn a hole in time?
Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers) and Nancy Allen (Carrie, Dressed to Kill) star in this provocative sci-fi action hit, executive produced by Halloween creator John Carpenter!
The Philadelphia Experiment takes as its jumping-off point an incident that is now paranormal legend, the U.S. Navy's supposed 1943 induction of an extremely powerful electromagnetic field around a destroyer in Philadelphia, causing its crew to become transparent, go insane, burst into flames, and so forth. The movie takes the tack that this was to render the ship invisible to radar, because of the war that was on. The test goes awry, however, and two of the crew leap forward in time to the filmmakers' present tense, 1984, where a similar experiment has caused a vortex that has trapped the 1943 ship and its crew along with a small Nevada town. The key to unbollixing this sad time-fracture lies in our heroes, the two time-travelling crew members, David Herdeg (Michael Par?) and Jim Parker (Bobby Di Cicco), whose electromagnetic instability keeps drawing them painfully back to the vortex to set things straight. This is silly stuff, but it's very fun silly stuff. One might cavil at gaps in plot logic, such as when Michael Par? seeks out the '80s version of his partner and finds more or less a trauma patient, while subsequent action contradicts this characterization. Still, there are plenty of still-worthy special effects, creating the requisite sense of awe and wonder. And for romantic interest, there's Nancy Allen's '80s girl paired with Michael Par?, affording plenty of amusing occasions for culture comparisons, most notably when Par? sees Ronald Reagan on TV, says, "Hey, I know that guy!" and refuses to believe he's president. --Jim Gay
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