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A 1943 Navy experiment to cloak a ship from enemy radar accidentally sends two sailors forty-one years into the future. Once they arrive in 1984, they are pursued by the military and begin suffering a mysterious illness that threatens their lives unless they can get back to 1943. Michael Paré (Eddie and the Cruisers) and Bobby Di Cicco play the sailors, and Nancy Allen (Carrie, RoboCop) plays the kind woman who gets swept up in their cause and eventually falls for Paré (can you blame her?) 

Paré’s relationships with both Allen and Di Cicco should have been stronger and the film could afford a few grace notes. But it does a lot of things right. Paré shows a broader range of emotion than most leading men and the film spends an admirable chunk of act two trying to reunite his character with surviving family and friends. A lot of other low-budget sci-fi flicks would have stuck strictly to the plot and let character and emotion fall by the wayside. The film also does a good job setting up dire stakes for the final act. The visual effects are a bit cheap and wonky, but Ken Wannberg’s score is effective in all the right places. With Stephen Tobolowsky. Executive Produced by John Carpenter.