name | Special |
---|---|
director | Hal HabermanJeremy Passmore |
producer | Edward ParksFrank Mele |
writer | Hal HabermanJeremy Passmore |
starring | Michael RapaportPaul BlackthorneJosh PeckRobert BakerJack KehlerAlexandra Holden |
music | Tom WolfeManish Raval |
cinematography | Nelson Cragg |
editing | Mike Saenz |
distributor | Revolver EntertainmentFabrication Films |
released | United KingdomUnited States: November 21, 2008 |
runtime | 78 minutes |
country | United States |
language | English |
gross | }} |
Special is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore. It was released in theatres in the UK on November 17, 2006 and on DVD in the UK on March 5, 2007. It was released in theatres in the US on November 21, 2008.
After several days of taking the pill, Les experiences supernatural powers, beginning with the ability to float. Paying a visit to Dobson, he sees himself floating, but Dobson sees him laying on the floor: Les has no powers at all. He explains that Les is having an adverse psychotic reaction to the drug and orders him to stop taking it. Les instead convinces himself that he has telepathy and Dobson is telling him to continue taking the drug.
Gaining self confidence, Les quits his job in order to become a crime fighting vigilante, and gains a reputation for tackling people after stopping a gunman from robbing Maggie's store, believing he is picking up telepathic intent to rob stores. He confides his new gifts to best friends Joey (Josh Peck) and Everett (Robert Baker), who think he's playing when he displays his phasing "power", only to run into a wall. Les tries to join the Police, but escapes when he is sought for the assaults.
After Dobson learns that Les is still taking the drug and getting worse he calls on two representatives, Ted (Ian Bohen) and Jonas (Paul Blackthorne) to talk Les out of taking the drugs. Les believes they are there to take his powers away (as he is confronted by an alternate version of himself "from a future that will now never exist"), so his "future self" stabs Jonas in the ear and Les runs off. Les "teleports" (sneaks behind) Ted and knocks him out then escapes to join Everett and Joey, who believe "the suits" are nonsense like Les' powers.
On the way to Dobson, Les stops a purse snatcher, which astounds his two friends. They go to Dobson who claims to have never seen Les, but gives the two friends a liquid to flush the medication from Les' body. Les leaves all three and finds that Jonas and Ted have broken into his apartment and are reading through his diary, talking about kidnapping him for a few days for the drug to work its way out of his system.
Dobson confesses that Les' reaction could ruin the company if the word got out. Dobson notes that he attempted to recover his career and life, while Les swallows the remaining pills. After Les leaves and makes Ted and Jonas "disappear", but the pair beat up Les until he snaps and knocks both out. Realizing that he is losing his mind, he runs to Maggie's store. She reveals she likes him, but does not speak to him because of a stutter, Les admits to liking her and requests to be locked up until the drug leaves his system.
Les awakens the following morning and to find he cannot float. In his walk home, Jonas runs him down with his car and Ted leaves as Jonas repeatedly hits Les with the automobile, until Les walks off injured, but now with confidence.
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