Synopsis
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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Cast
- Michael ParéDavid Herdeg
- Nancy AllenAllison Hayes
- Eric ChristmasDr. James Longstreet
- Bobby Di CiccoJim Parker
- Louise LathamPamela
- Kene HollidayMajor Clark
- Joe DorseySheriff Bates
- Michael CurrieMagnussen
- Stephen TobolowskyBarney
- Gary BrocketteAdjutant / Andrews
Recommendations
- 60
The New York Times
It's a pleasant but fairly standard movie about a subject that's anything but. - 60
Time Out
A time-travel yarn of the past arrives in the present persuasion. The 'what the hell's happened?' passages are, as usual, more diverting than the 'what the hell can we do about it?' scenes, the latter involving merely flashing lights, showers of sparks and talk of imploding vortexes. - 60
Variety
The philadelphia Experiment had a lot of script problems in its development that haven't been solved yet, but final result is an adequate sci-fi yarn. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Fascinating but thoroughly unbelievable. - 50
The Associated Press
The Philadelphia Experiment offers the basis of a good sci-fi thriller, but it's top heavy and never makes it off the ground. If the movie had dealt more with reality and real human reactions to bizarre situations, it would have offered a good screen scare. [28 Aug 1984] - 40
Washington Post
In the hands of a less amateurish director, The Philadelphia Experiment, now at area theaters, might have emerged as an ingratiating sleeper. [09 Aug 1984, p.D6] - 25
Miami Herald
It was pretty interesting a couple of years ago, too, when a variation of it was the premise for The Final Countdown. The big difference is that the earler film wasn't bad, and this one is. [03 Aug 1984, p.C9]
