I didn't know much about this De Pala film apart from the fact that someone exploded at the end. It's quite a fun thriller giving Kirk Douglas a good late-career virile man performance as a CIA agent looking for his son Andrew Stevens. Stevens has telekenesis and has wound up at school for the gifted - I think this was after Xavier's school in X Men. It's run by Charles Durning but people behind the scenes are creepy John Cassavetes and Fiona Lewis, both excellent.
It's a very well acted movie - there's also Dennis Franz and M Emmett Walsh with hair, Carrie Snogress as Douglas' girlfriend, and Amy Irving heading the other key plot, a girl who has psychic powers.
Beautiful John Williams score, and unexpected finale with Stevens plunging to his death and a distraught Douglas then killing himself. There are riffs to Carrie - Irving, a teen who has psychic powers - and some unexpected comedy when Arabs are killed via Stevens at a fun fair.
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