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In a part made for the genial John Travolta, he plays a country boy mechanic of average intelligence who is knocked out by a UFO-like light on the night of his 37th birthday. When he comes to, he is smarter, a whole lot smarter. He also discovers he has teleknetic abilities. Naturally the town is confused and frightened by these new powers, and those close to Travolta (best friend Forrest Whitaker, father figure/town doctor Robert Duvall, and standoffish single mom Kyra Sedgewick Travolta who has an eye for) are affected and puzzled even more. Of course a paranoid FBI shows up and for a time holds our hero on trumped up charges.This is good solid Hollywood entertainment, not unlike the earlier "Charlie" sarring Cliff Robertson.
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...then you seem to have missed a small detail: what happened to Travolta´s character was that he developed a glioma (a type of brain tumor, which usually is lethal), and his brain cells multiply, making him incredibly smarter, and increasing potentialities usually not developed.Of course, when one of those tumors develops, what happens is quite different from what you see in this film..., but then that´s how things end.
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...now, it had already been seen by those interested.I plead guilty, and will never do it again.
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Yes, but we don't find out about the tumor until very near the end, For most of the film his powers are unexplained and frightening to most.
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The marketing of the movie and the "marketing part" of the story should have been left on the cutting room floor. It would have been a far more interesting story if the true phenomenon had been known early on in the movie. A lot more lasting drama could have been created and sustained by how an innovative mind meets with outside opposition as well as the self destructive madness that often accompanies brilliance.Instead, it's a cheap mystery that isn't worth watching again because the mystery has already been explained.
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Travolta, Tom Cruise, Anne Archer, et. al. are scienties. Scientology
courses, books, seminars, etc. requires more-than-average-moolah as
you probably know. That's it for now, have an auditing session to
attend. CloneAid concert after that. - AH
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