bearacuda

Phenomenon with John Travolta. One time I happened to catch this movie aired on TV (nbc, abc, fox,.. I don't remember). I'd seen the moving many times before, BUT this televised version had extra scenes in it! There is a scene with Travolta and Duval at a farm. Duval asks Travolta to move a pile of wood with his mind. Travolta tries and fails. Then when they walk away, wood pile moves. Another scene had an extended talk between Travolta and best friend Nate Pope when Travolta escapes from hospital. There were a few other scenes I can't remember. This TV version I saw had to be a couple years ago at least. I STILL CANNOT find any information about these 'missing' minutes. The DVD released Feb. 2003 has no deleted scenes on it. I want this extended version badly. Anyone know anything about this?

Jason

djtoell

It's very common practice for films to be padded with deleted footage for TV. It's also pretty rare that these extended scenes show up as an extra feature on DVD. I wouldn't hold my breath for a re-release of Phenomenon with extra footage.

DJ

bearacuda

Man that sucks.

Barney1234

I saw the movie in the theater, and I recall the scene with the wood pile.

bearacuda

Ya... there is a scene where a boy with food poisoning is in a tree house. John Travolta moves some planks of wood hiding the tree house. But that's not the scene I'm talking about. It was a scene with just Robert Duval and John Travolta.

Spiky

It'd be nice if there was at least the 5 second scene from the trailer (with Spiner's character explaining the test results to another doc) available somwhere. It's so stupid when they cut the scenes from the trailer.

bearacuda

Ya... I know... But I'm sure there are some corporate execs that have full versions of this stuff... oh well..

harosa

Far and Away and Needful Things had TONS of new footage added when they aired on cable, TBS or USA i believe. Im talking new scenes, not extensions, hell, Needful Things had a totally new beginning.

bigdogkt2003

This also happened with Happy Gilmore, when it was was on like the Superstation.

harosa

I remember that, like a whole scene with the staff playing baseball with him and his friends i think.

Imafilmakr

This has bothered me for almost 2 decades! Lol! Did u find anything? I even tweeted Actors from the movie.

Why So Blu?

I know the version of Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood has extra footage on the Netflix version than the BD or DVD ever had. As far as Phenomenon goes, I have no idea.

Hokeyboy

Fifteen and a half years? Well goddamn.

E Unit

islandclaws

^ Shout Select is putting it out on BD this year. Could surface there.

bearacuda

No I have not found anything out. I'm watching the movie right now, thought I'd do an internet search again. Found my old comment here. Glad to know there is one other person who's interested.

did you try the Director of Photography? Phedon Papamichael

at imdb:

It says: "

Alternate Versions

NBC network television version features alternate/new footage not present in the theatrical and home video releases."

Best,
Bearacuda

E Unit

Jesus, you’ve been watching this for 17 years?!

If it makes you feel better, the Shout Select blu of Born in East LA does have all of the missing footage from the TV release.

story

The odd recent perennial revival of this thread is a phenomenon until itself.

Imafilmakr

This is too funny. We're talking about a movie from over 26 years ago. Every few years, we're gonna be comment on this till we pass LOL.

story

Moving to the new, exciting, and necessary forum, Phenomenon Talk.