| The Philadelphia Experiment | |
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| Directed by | Stewart Raffill |
| Screenplay by | William Gray Michael Janover |
| Story by | Wallace C. Bennett Don Jakoby |
| Based on | The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility 1979 book by Charles Berlitz William L. Moore |
| Produced by | Douglas Curtis Joel B. Michaels |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Dick Bush |
| Edited by | Neil Travis |
| Music by | Kenneth Wannberg |
Production company | Cinema Group |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9 million[1] |
| Box office | $8,103,330 |
The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 American science fiction film. It is directed by Stewart Raffill, stars Michael Paré, Bobby Di Cicco, Kene Holliday and Nancy Allen and is based on the urban legend of the Philadelphia Experiment. In 1943, United States Navy sailors David Herdeg (Paré) and Jim Parker (Di Cicco) are thrown forward in time to the year 1984 when a scientific experiment being performed aboard the USS Eldridge suffers a catastrophe. The film follows the two men as they attempt to survive the future and race against time to put an end to the experiment that now threatens the fate of the entire world.
The film was released on August 3, 1984 by New World Pictures, and received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office failure, only earning $8,103,330 against a budget of $9 million.