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| - Phenomenon (not to be confused with the 1996 John Travolta film of the same name) was A short-lived reality series which featured ten contestants competing to become the next great mentalist.
- A phenomenon is any real event. Just ask Superman. It's not sexual, trust me. Phenomenon is a shortened form of phenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenon which is the Greek for "We're coming up roses, baby! We'll retire in the sunshine." Don't count on it, Jack. Your taxes are still not paid off. I told you to pay 'em.
- Phenomenon was a crew that sailed the Cobalt Ocean. The crew flew the flag of Hydrophobia.
- George Malley (John Travolta), whose life is transformed by a strange flash of light he observes on the evening of his 37th birthday. Over the course of the following days, George starts to experience an extraordinary form of genius-level intelligence, rapidly absorbing vasts amounts of information, formulating new, revolutionary ideas, and even exhibiting telekinetic abilities. The movie ends approximately one year afterward at the town's local bar, where the townsfolk gather to celebrate George Malley's birthday.
- Phenomenon is a 1996 film, combining elements of drama, romance, and fantasy. It was directed by Jon Turteltaub. The main stars were John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Duvall. Its opening is not too different from a Super-Hero Origin. George Malley (Travolta) is your average joe, an auto mechanic in a small city. On the evening of his 37th birthday, everything changes. He notices a strange flash of light which somehow grants him genius-level intellect, and telekinesis. The former power allows him to both absorb vast amounts of information and formulate revolutionary ideas.
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| - Phenomenon (not to be confused with the 1996 John Travolta film of the same name) was A short-lived reality series which featured ten contestants competing to become the next great mentalist.
- A phenomenon is any real event. Just ask Superman. It's not sexual, trust me. Phenomenon is a shortened form of phenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenomenon which is the Greek for "We're coming up roses, baby! We'll retire in the sunshine." Don't count on it, Jack. Your taxes are still not paid off. I told you to pay 'em.
- George Malley (John Travolta), whose life is transformed by a strange flash of light he observes on the evening of his 37th birthday. Over the course of the following days, George starts to experience an extraordinary form of genius-level intelligence, rapidly absorbing vasts amounts of information, formulating new, revolutionary ideas, and even exhibiting telekinetic abilities. George tries to use his new intelligence for the good of his community. At first local townfolks are intrigued and amused by George's new abilities, but as they increase, community members gradually become afraid of him, with the only exceptions being love interest Lace Pennamin (Kyra Sedgwick), town physician Doc Brunder (Robert Duvall), and best friend Nate Pope (Forest Whitaker). Matters are complicated further when the government begins to take an interest in his newfound genius. While participating in a town fair, George wants to publicize his revolutionary findings to the community with the hopes to make people's lives better; instead, the townsfolk are more concerned with seeing a display of his telekinesis. Soon after, another great flash of light strikes George, knocking him down. He awakens in a hospital where Dr. Brunder explains what's been causing his change. He has an astrocytoma brain tumor that has spread out like a hand, with threads of it everywhere. But, instead of destroying brain function, so far it's been stimulating it. George has more area of active brain use than anybody ever tested because of the tentacles from the tumor. The tumor is what also caused the dizziness and illusion of light. As a result of the tumor, George doesn't have much time to live. Government-employed doctors propose cutting George's life even shorter by examining his brain before he can die a natural death, and argue that if he objects to their plan, the objection itself would be proof that he is mentally unfit to make such a decision, and that the government would then proceed with the examination anyway. Held against his will--allegedly just for observation, but really until the government can put its plan into action--George eventually escapes, hoping to continue his research. He hopes that seismologist Dr. Ringold (Jeffrey DeMunn) from UC Berkeley might continue his experiments and, ultimately, complete the research he'll never get to finish. After returning home, George gives Nate notes which basically served as a journal and gives him some other notes to deliver to Doc Brunder. He then retrieves his scientific research and, literally, runs to Lace's house. There, he aims to give his final farewells to Lace and her children, Al and Glory (David Gallagher and Ashley Buccille, respectively). George comforts them using an apple as a metaphor: no matter what, an apple will rot and decay if thrown on the ground, but if they were to take a bite out of it, the apple would become a part of them, and they would carry it with them forever. Later that day, Lace and George sleep together, and George dies in her arms. Dr. Ringold arrives to speak to George later that morning, but he's too late, and Lace, instead, passes on George's incomplete research. The movie ends approximately one year afterward at the town's local bar, where the townsfolk gather to celebrate George Malley's birthday.
- Phenomenon is a 1996 film, combining elements of drama, romance, and fantasy. It was directed by Jon Turteltaub. The main stars were John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Duvall. Its opening is not too different from a Super-Hero Origin. George Malley (Travolta) is your average joe, an auto mechanic in a small city. On the evening of his 37th birthday, everything changes. He notices a strange flash of light which somehow grants him genius-level intellect, and telekinesis. The former power allows him to both absorb vast amounts of information and formulate revolutionary ideas. Having an altruistic streak, George decides to devote his new skills to the improvement of his small town. Initially the locals are amused and intrigued. But their amusement soon turns to terror. There are exactly three people who stand by him: Lace Pennamin (Sedgwick), Nate Pope (Whitaker), and Doc Brunder (Duvall). Lace is his love interest, Nate his best bud, Doc is the fatherly town physician (who delivered him) and tries to figure out what has changed in George's physiology. George also intercepts and decodes an encrypted transmission, replying to it, which results in a top secret US military training exercise being canceled. This brings in the FBI, who interrogate him and then offer George an intelligence job, which he refuses, saying he learned things in deciphering secret communications that he did not want to know. When George strains himself a bit too much, he sees a second flash of light. Which quickly knocks him out. By the time George wakes up, Doc Brunder has run some additional tests. He has found what is actually going on. Those flashes of light were, it seems, hallucinations caused by an extraordinary brain tumor. While its killing George slowly from the inside, it simultaneously increases the activity of his brain. More than any other human being. Then, enter our villains. They are the FBI and medical researchers in the service of the Federal government. They want to perform involuntary medical experiments on George's brain. Now, the genius has to fight for a very basic right: dying with dignity, not as a guinea pig. He succeeds spectacularly. He leaves extensive notes of his scientific work (in hope someone could continue it), bonds with Lace's two kids (played by David Gallagher and Ashley Buccille), makes love to Lace herself and then dies in her arms. A year later, his friends honor the dead man on the day of his birthday.
* Beneficial Disease: George develops hyperintelligence and even psychokinesis because of what is eventually discovered to be a terminal brain tumor.
* Mind Over Matter: George's telekinesis.
* My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Nate, the best friend of John Travolta's character, asks him to teach him some Portuguese so he can hire a (beautiful) Brazilian lady as his maid. Travolta uses a tape recorder to give English and Portuguese "translations" for sentences like, "Can you start on Monday?". But the Portuguese sentences actually mean "You have beautiful eyes", and so on. At the end of the movie Nate and the Brazilian lady are expecting a baby. Aww.
* My Skull Runneth Over: The same medical condition granting George his intellectual powers is killing him.
* 90% of Your Brain: George's tumor gives him "more area of active brain use than anybody ever tested".
* Out with a Bang: George.
* Smart People Play Chess: One of the first clues of George's newfound intelligence is that he starts winning chess games against Doc Brunder.
* Though the first clue was mostly because Doc was just teaching him chess the night before, when a day later, he expertly beat him in said game.
* Super Intelligence: The main point of the movie.
* Super Speed Reading: George is seen reading a book simply by flipping through pages. At one point he claims to read 4 or 5 books a day.
* The Smart Guy: George and to a lesser extent Doc Brunder, who becomes overshadowed (and overawed) due to his abilities.
- Phenomenon was a crew that sailed the Cobalt Ocean. The crew flew the flag of Hydrophobia.
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