Powder

A young bald albino boy with unique powers shakes up the rural community he lives in.

• Director:Victor Salva
• Genre:Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:112 minutes

Cast

Mary Steenburgen : Jessie Caldwell
Sean Patrick Flanery : Jeremy ‘Powder’ Reed
Lance Henriksen : Sheriff Doug Barnum
Jeff Goldblum : Donald Ripley
Brandon Smith : Deputy Harley Duncan

Jeremy Reed, whose nickname is Powder, is an albino who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him. Jeremy’s mother was struck by lightning while pregnant with him. She died shortly after the strike, but Jeremy survived. Because of the lightning strike, Jeremy’s body possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abnormally when he is around them, as well as when he becomes emotional. Also, because of his electrical charge, no hair can grow on his body. Because his mother is dead and his father disowned him and left him with the hospital where he was born, he grew up with his grandparents. They kept him in a basement and would not let him leave the house, so he turned to books for solace. He was taken from his home when his grandfather was found dead. Child Services agents took him to a boy’s home because he was now effectively a ward of the state.

He is taken to high school and encounters physics teacher Donald Ripley (Goldblum) who finds out that Powder has supernatural powers as well as the highest IQ in the history of mankind. While his abilities mark him as special, they also make him an outcast. On a hunting trip with his schoolmates, Powder is threatened with a gun by John Box, an aggressive student who views him as a freak. Before John can shoot, a gun goes off in the distance and everyone rushes to see that Harley, a sheriff’s deputy who is hunting with the boys, has shot a doe which is now dying. Anguished by the animal’s death, Powder touches the deer and Harley, inducing in Harley what the students assume is a seizure. Harley later reveals that Powder had caused him to feel the pain and fear of the dying deer, and he cannot bring himself to wield a gun anymore because of this, although he hates Powder for doing this to him.

Powder meets Lindsey Kelloway, a romantic interest, but their relationship is broken by Lindsey’s father. Before the interruption, he tells Lindsey that he can see the truth about people: that they are scared and feel disconnected from the rest of the world, but in truth are all connected to everything that exists. Read more

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