Powder is a 1995 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Victor Salva and starring Sean Patrick Flanery in the titular role, with Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Bradford Tatum and Lance Henriksen in supporting roles. It is about Jeremy "Powder" Reed, who has an incredible intellect, as well as telepathy and paranormal powers. The film 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. Its filming locations were around suburbs of Houston, San Antonio and Austin, Texas.
Jeremy "Powder" Reed is an albino young man who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him. Jeremy's brain possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abnormally when he is around them, as well as when he becomes emotional. The electrical charge also prevents hair from growing on his body. Jeremy's mother was struck by lightning while pregnant with him; she died shortly after the strike, but Jeremy survived. 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. Jessie Caldwell (Mary Steenburgen), a child services psychologist, takes him to a boys' home because he is now effectively a ward of the state.
Lying soaked in sweat tonight
Your knuckles white, you try to fight
The need for more to get you by
You've had enough you wonder why
Even now your body cries
For chemicals to blind your eyes
Wonder can you stay this high
When the cells begin to die
Forever, forever, forever
Crush it up, crush it up
Take it down, take it down
Smash it up, smash it up
Falling down
Swallowed like the medicine
That's broken down my happy friend
Wonder if he'll let me in
If I come to see him when he's better
He's better, he's better... now
Crush it up, crush it up
Take it down, take it down
Smash it up, smash it up
Falling down
Crush it up, crush it up
Take it down, take it down
Smash it up, smash it up
Falling down
There's power
In the powder
Dissolving in your guts
There's power
In the powder
Dissolving in your guts
Crush it up, crush it up
Take it down, take it down
Smash it up, smash it up
Falling down
Crush it up, crush it up
Take it down, take it down
Smash it up, smash it up
Falling down
I'm falling (crush it up, crush it up)
I'm falling (take it down, take it down)
I'm falling (smash it up, smash it up)
I'm falling down
I'm falling (crush it up, crush it up)
I'm falling (take it down, take it down)
I'm falling (smash it up, smash it up)
I'm falling down
I'm falling
I'm falling
I'm falling