Movie Suggestion: "Powder" (1995)

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Movie Suggestion: "Powder" (1995)

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I saw a couple of minutes ago one of the most faszinating movies for me so far.
Has anyone else seen this movie ?

The title is "Powder" / USA 1995 see this Link for further Info`s :

http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/powder.htm
This unusual modern-day fable concerns a super-powered teenager who inspires nothing but hostility in the small-minded folk of his hometown. Sean Patrick Flanery stars as Jeremy Reed, nicknamed "Powder" because he is an albino. Powder has been living his entire 16 years in his grandparents' basement, but they have both passed away. The boy is removed from his home and placed in a school. There, science teacher Ripley (Jeff Goldblum) and psychologist Jessie Caldwell (Mary Steenburgen) discover that in addition to being an albino, their new student is the smartest person who ever lived with an IQ off the charts -- and that he is electrically super-charged, which renders him hairless. Powder also has miraculous powers of perception, ESP, and healing, which he uses to ease the death of the terminally ill wife of local Sheriff Barnum (Lance Henriksen) and to give a bigoted redneck hunter (Brandon Smith) a firsthand demonstration of the pain suffered by a deer he's just shot.
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Post: # 4578Post JT »

Yes, I've seen that movie 2 or 3 times. Good movie.
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