Directed by Stewart Raffill. Starring: Michael Pare, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco, Louise Latham, Kene Holliday, Stephen Tobolowsky Review by Melissa R. Mendelson
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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I once had this dream that I didn’t exist. Someone went back in time and erased me from existence, but I’m still here. And I can’t escape a world that I no longer recognize, and I have no place here. And if I could wake up would I hope to find myself back home in the time that I belong to.
The river of time should never be disturbed, but once altered, everything begins to change. A boy crashes into the past, nearly wiping out his family’s existence. A man stumbles across conspiracy, discovering that lives lost have been moved forward to save humanity’s end. Another man awakes from a frozen slumber only to find his world gone and ready to be conquered by the one man he hoped to have killed. Hunters take on the prehistoric era only to change the course of evolution. Devices tear holes through the fabric of the space time continuum, and vortexes threaten to rip our world, our timeline apart. And the river of time flows no more.
A world at war pushes the boundaries of time. An experiment aboard a US Navy Destroyer promises to deliver as a powerful weapon to be used against the enemy. All eyes are on the Philadelphia Harbor, and all sailors report to duty. And the dials are turned, and all goes as planned. But then the ship disappears with everyone on board.
They found themselves in no man’s land, running for their lives. They struggle to the other side, but they find their world gone. And only they seemed to have survived, and as they search for answers do they find themselves in new surroundings. And they realize that they are forty years ahead of the moment that changed their lives.
Lightning strikes. A storm is spiraling out of control, and time belongs to no one. But those fallen from the past belong to it, and lightning strikes again, threatening to engulf the ones trapped between time. And two worlds collide.
David Herdeg watches time rip his friend apart, pulling him back to the chaos of the past, and then lightning strikes him. His turn is coming, but he still needs answers. He needs to know about his life and those close to his heart, and the truth is delivered through the old man, who was once his friend. And the storm grows more wild, a vortex threatening to rip two worlds apart, and it falls on him to set things right. And he is torn between his life left behind and the love found forty years later, but the past was calling him home.
He crosses the boundaries of time for her. His life sacrificed for their love. The chaos of the world dies down, but there is no promise that it would not stir up again. But the only thing that matters are their moments together, and all that exists is their hearts beating as one. And time would never keep them apart, and whatever unknown road waited for them ahead, they would travel it together, hand in hand.
The river of time should never be disturbed because once disturbed, everything changes. The past crashes into the future, timelines collide, and lives disappear. The thirst for knowledge, the hunger to turn that dial and reach beyond is Pandora’s Box, and once open, there is no going back. And everything changes, and nobody is the same. And history depicts a picture of science gone wrong, and holes in the fabric of the space time continuum linger behind. And stories such as this, The Philadelphia Experiment 1984 remind us that some things are best left alone.
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