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Specimen (1996)

Specimen poster
Directed by
John Bradshaw
Genre
science fiction film, thriller film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
R
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man discovers he has superhuman abilities. He starts to look into his own past and finds a hidden history that soon threatens him.

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What happens

Specimen is a 1996 Canadian science-fiction thriller television film directed by John Bradshaw, based on a story by Bradshaw and producer Damian Lee. It stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar as a young man with superpowers, whose enigmatic past catches up with him just as he begins to investigate it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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