This article needs additional citations for verification. Please file powder improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. The film is about Jeremy “Powder” Reed, who has an incredible intellect, as well as telepathy and paranormal powers. It questions the limits of the human mind and body while also displaying society’s capacity for cruelty, and raises hope that humanity will advance to a state of better understanding.
The film was a financial success, but critical reviews were mixed and the film’s release dogged with controversy due to Salva’s prior conviction for child sex abuse. His father disowned him shortly after his premature birth, and he was raised by his grandparents. Jeremy lived in the basement and worked on their farm, never leaving their property and learning everything he knew from books. He is taken from his home when his grandfather is found dead of natural causes.
Donald finds out that Jeremy has supernatural powers as well as the highest IQ in history. Before John can fire, a gun goes off in the distance, and everyone rushes to see that Harley Duncan, a Sheriff’s deputy, has shot a doe. Anguished by the animal’s death, Jeremy touches both the deer and Harley at the same time, inducing in Harley what the students assume is a seizure. Doug enlists Jeremy to help speak to his dying wife through telepathy. Through Jeremy, the sheriff learns that his wife clings onto life because she did not want to die while not wearing her wedding ring and without him reconciling with his estranged son, Steven. She tells him that Steven found the ring and that it has been sitting in a silver box on her nightstand the entire time.