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Off the Pacific coast of southern South California, USA, in April 1910, the destroyer USS Preston anchors several miles offshore the ruined town of Upperton, with a complement largely composed of intelligence observers and photographers, sent to gather visual information on the town without actually entering the Restricted Zone established in a twenty-mile perimeter around it. Very near the end of the operation, however, an observer sights something through one of the ship's telescopes, and in a fit of hysterics throws himself over the side and into the ocean, drowning. The crew is mystified by the man's behavior, and the operation is completed in haste before the Preston leaves the area for good, never knowing what the man saw to make him go insane in the span of mere seconds.

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  • Baja II (film) (Alternity)
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  • Off the Pacific coast of southern South California, USA, in April 1910, the destroyer USS Preston anchors several miles offshore the ruined town of Upperton, with a complement largely composed of intelligence observers and photographers, sent to gather visual information on the town without actually entering the Restricted Zone established in a twenty-mile perimeter around it. Very near the end of the operation, however, an observer sights something through one of the ship's telescopes, and in a fit of hysterics throws himself over the side and into the ocean, drowning. The crew is mystified by the man's behavior, and the operation is completed in haste before the Preston leaves the area for good, never knowing what the man saw to make him go insane in the span of mere seconds.
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Starring
  • Sean Penn
  • Johnny Depp
  • Elijah Wood
  • Crispin Glover
Runtime
  • 7440.0
Country
  • United States
Name
  • Baja II
Caption
  • Promotional teaser poster
Language
  • English
BasedOn
  • Baja by Ben Corrin
Studio
  • Paramount Pictures
Released
  • 1997-04-25(xsd:date)
Preceding
  • Baja
following
  • TBA
Writer
Director
  • Mary Lambert
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  • Off the Pacific coast of southern South California, USA, in April 1910, the destroyer USS Preston anchors several miles offshore the ruined town of Upperton, with a complement largely composed of intelligence observers and photographers, sent to gather visual information on the town without actually entering the Restricted Zone established in a twenty-mile perimeter around it. Very near the end of the operation, however, an observer sights something through one of the ship's telescopes, and in a fit of hysterics throws himself over the side and into the ocean, drowning. The crew is mystified by the man's behavior, and the operation is completed in haste before the Preston leaves the area for good, never knowing what the man saw to make him go insane in the span of mere seconds. Thirty-two years later. It is late February 1942 in the growing town of Lucaston, South California – thirty-five years after the Upperton incident, and not more than fifty miles north of the abandoned town – seventeen year-old Louis Bardmann (Elijah Wood) returns from a visit to La Paz and finds Lucaston in a panic over word of an impending Japanese attack. Only by the convincing of his 28 year-old brother Casey (Johnny Depp) – a US Army officer – is the rumor dispelled and the town’s attitude returned to a state of relative normalcy. Two days later, as Casey takes his platoon for a morning exercise run on the beaches to the south of town, his command sergeant stumbles across a pile of seaweed and rotten timber. Upon searching through it amiably on orders from the sergeant, a pair of corporals are mortified to discover a small human skeleton entangled in the seaweed. Casey makes a cursory inspection of the remains, and finds several disconcerting injuries present. Hours later, he returns home in a disturbed mood and seals himself in his room until the next morning, during which time only his father, Simon Bardmann II (Crispin Glover), enters to talk with him. In the morning, Casey and his father leave a mystified Louis behind as they head into town. Once there, they go straight to the town morgue, where awaits Michael Isaacs (Liam Neeson), the local coroner (and a town councilman), with his findings on the remains. Most prominent are a deeply-gouged skull fracture (lined by a kind of gritty black dust) and massive – almost total – fracturing of the chest bone, the latter of which Simon tentatively identifies as a stab wound. A startled Isaacs concurs and asks half-jokingly if he is clairvoyant; Simon replies "Or something else" under his breath. The skull fracture badly disconcerts Simon, who has a brief flashback to carrying someone out of the ocean, someone with a major head wound: his young brother, Mark. To be continued...
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