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Powder is a 1995 film staring Sean Patrick Flanery in the titular role with Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Bradford Tatum, and Lance Henriksen in supporting roles. It involves an albino boy, Powder, with paranormal powers over electricity.

When Powder's grandfather dies after a heart attack, Powder is taken by child care representatives to an orphanage where he quickly finds himself thrown into many painful circumstances and obstacles. He is taken to highschool and encounters his physics teacher Donald Ripley (Jeff Goldblum) who finds out that Powder has supernatural powers. Except Lindsey Kelloway (Missy Crider) there is nobody in his age who likes or talks to him. But Powder also does not try to get in contact with anybody. At the end a lightening attacks Powder while he is running away from a policeman who wants to take him away and disappears.

The film questions the limits of the human mind and body while also displaying the capacity for cruelty and the hope that one day humanity will advance beyond technology.

Since its release it has grossed approximately $31 million worldwide.

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