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Writers:
Wallace C. Bennett (story)
Charles Berlitz (book)
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Release Date:
3 August 1984 (USA) more
Tagline:
Will You Survive? more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Major Disappointment more (34 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michael Paré | ... | David Herdeg | |
| Nancy Allen | ... | Allison Hayes | |
| Eric Christmas | ... | Dr. James Longstreet | |
| Bobby Di Cicco | ... | Jim Parker | |
| Louise Latham | ... | Pamela | |
| Kene Holliday | ... | Major Clark | |
| Joe Dorsey | ... | Sheriff Bates | |
| Michael Currie | ... | Magnussen | |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | Barney | |
| Gary Brockette | ... | Adjutant / Andrews | |
| Debra Troyer | ... | Young Pamela | |
| Miles McNamara | ... | Young Longstreet | |
| Ralph Manza | ... | Older Jim | |
| James Edgcomb | ... | Officer Boyer | |
| Glenn Morshower | ... | Mechanic |
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102 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12
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Back in 1980, AVCO Embassay Pictures asked John Carpenter, who serves as an executive producer on this film to both write and direct this film after the success of Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980). However, Carpenter showed them Escape from New York (1981) (which he wrote years earlier) and they did that instead. more
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Anachronisms: David and Jimmy don't know how to drive Allison's car, which has an automatic transmission, and they claim never to have heard of an "automatic" before. The first mass-produced automatic transmission was introduced by General Motors in 1939, two years before the United States entered World War II. more
Quotes:
Allison Hayes:
Why'd you join the Navy?
David Herdeg:
You know the old saying: girl in every port.
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Referenced in 100 Million BC (2008) (V) more
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The Runner more
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"The Philadelphia Experiment" takes the intriguing idea of time travel forward and turns it into a routine, often silly thriller. Michael Pare, hot off "Eddie and the Cruisers" stars as one of two WWII soldiers that are time warped to present day (1984) and try to get back. When his buddy does go back Pare seeks him out in 1984 and when he finds him the scene is so ridiculously written it kills the whole movie. Not a chance would the friend act the way he does to his supposedly long lost buddy. It's awkward and unintentionally funny - which can be said for the whole film.