A strange light comes down from the sky on the night of his thirty-seventh birthday, and a small-town garage owner wakes up the next morning as a genius, reading two or three books a day ("at least"), moving objects telekinetically, foreseeing an earthquake, etc. What was that light? -- a UFO? the hand of God? Well, no, it appears to have been produced by a star-shaped brain tumor whose spreading tentacles are stimulating unused portions of the brain, revealing the untapped human potential. This is a visionary film from a filmmaker (Jon Turteltaub) bound by convention (pop-song montages, comfy-cozy sentiments, the fatherly country doctor), a piece of "inspiration" without any. The peak: a shave and a haircut as erotic foreplay. John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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