The Philadelphia Experiment - classic 80's flick

The Philadelphia Experiment - classic 80's flick
Thursday, May 2, 2024 from 8:00pm to 9:30pm
The Historic Select Theater
114 N Johnson St,
903-569-2300

It's time for some time traveling 1980's action with this classic film..."The Philadelphia Experiment"!

In 1943, a top-secret experiment aboard a Navy destroyer backfires and two sailors are propelled to 1984.

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 Paré) and Jim Parker (Bobby Di Cicco), whose electromagnetic instability keeps drawing them painfully back to the vortex to set things straight.

NOTE - You can buy a ticket for just this film for $6 OR you can pay $8 and get a double feature combo ticket and see "My Science Project" before this one at 6PM!