The Philadelphia Experiment (film)

The Philadelphia Experiment
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStewart Raffill
Screenplay byWilliam Gray
Michael Janover
Story byWallace C. Bennett
Don Jakoby
Based onThe Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility
1979 book
by Charles Berlitz
William L. Moore
Produced byDouglas Curtis
Joel B. Michaels
Starring
CinematographyDick Bush
Edited byNeil Travis
Music byKenneth Wannberg
Production
company
Cinema Group
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
  • August 3, 1984 (1984-08-03)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog".