The Philadephia Experiment is a decent time travel/action film with some romance thrown in for the ladies, which I often don't really like, but since it's Nancy Allen, I won't complain. Ms. Allen had a nice run of sci-fi and horror films in the 1970s and 1980s starting with the original Carrie(as the meanest of the tormentors of Carrie White even if most the "tennage" cast for that film were already a bit too old) on to some other classics, Strange Invaders, the Robocop series, and so on. I missed the in-joke here about her character's name "Allison Hayes," who was a gorgeous 1950s sci-fi and horror scream queen.
The film itself is based on the possibly-true experiment to "cloak" naval ships during World War Two; differing versions exist of the experiment, but it at least seems possible. All sides were trying to develop secret weapons during the conflict.
Anyway, Michael Pare' plays David, one of two sailors tossed into then-present year 1984 where another try at the same experiment is proving to be a really bad idea. He becomes involved with Allison fairly-quickly, and they go through several near-fatal adventures before he agrees to go back in time, and try to set everything right then, and in the 1980s. The conclusion seems to have been designed for the sake of the "romance" crowd, but all in all, this is a decent enough film which works on several levels, I think.
For those interested, a good deal of material is available from various sources on the Experiment. Meantime, I can certainly recommend this movie to sci-fi fans easily enough, or fans of Ms. Allen, of course.
The film itself is based on the possibly-true experiment to "cloak" naval ships during World War Two; differing versions exist of the experiment, but it at least seems possible. All sides were trying to develop secret weapons during the conflict.
Anyway, Michael Pare' plays David, one of two sailors tossed into then-present year 1984 where another try at the same experiment is proving to be a really bad idea. He becomes involved with Allison fairly-quickly, and they go through several near-fatal adventures before he agrees to go back in time, and try to set everything right then, and in the 1980s. The conclusion seems to have been designed for the sake of the "romance" crowd, but all in all, this is a decent enough film which works on several levels, I think.
For those interested, a good deal of material is available from various sources on the Experiment. Meantime, I can certainly recommend this movie to sci-fi fans easily enough, or fans of Ms. Allen, of course.