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

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

October 5, 19841h 42mEN
6.1

438 votes

Overview

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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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$9.0M

Revenue

$8.1M

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New Pictures GroupNew World PicturesCinema Group Ventures

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6.0

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…

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