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PHENOMENON (Jul 1996)
Director: Jon Turteltaub.
Writer: Gerald Di Pego.
Starring:
John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Kiley, Brent Spiner, Vyto Ruginis, Bruce A. Young, Michael Milhoan, Sean O'Bryan, David Gallagher.
Average. An indictment unto itself.
Battlefield Iowa.
by Jon Dunmore © 5 Jan 2007.


Long before John Travolta and Forest Whitaker turn Earth into a battlefield for L. Ron Hubbard in Battlefield Earth, the Psychlos envoy (Travolta and his mildly-retarded lieutenant, Whitaker) inhabit a small midwestern American town, pretending to be human.

PHENOMENON Forrest Whitaker John TravoltaOn his 37th birthday, Travolta sees lights in the sky - L. Ron Hubbard beaming down brain juice from his spaceship, giving Travolta telekinesis and heightened learning capacity.

With his newfound powers, Travolta still can't find an inane excuse to dance in this film - maybe it was those 15 inch disco heels coupled with earth's high gravity?

Robert Duvall is the town doc, Brent Spiner beams down from Enterprise D to make a cameo and Kyra Sedgwick is the shovel-mouthed human female that Travolta tries to mate with to spawn mini-Psychlos. He somehow gets the idea that to impregnate her, he must buy her homemade chairs. I guess she gave him that idea by cutting his hair so sensuously.

Travolta finds that L. Ron giveth and L. Ron taketh away - as he was blessed with his powers of hyper-intelligence and the ability to absorb books like Spongebob Squarepants absorbs seawater - he was also cursed with aging too quickly.

He dies, having brought Scientology to Iowa, and rises to join the mothership.


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Back to title - Alpha Listing
PHENOMENON (Jul 1996)
Director: Jon Turteltaub.
Writer: Gerald Di Pego.
Starring:
John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Kiley, Brent Spiner, Vyto Ruginis, Bruce A. Young, Michael Milhoan, Sean O'Bryan, David Gallagher.
Average. An indictment unto itself.

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