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Scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) has developed a serum that can make a subject invisible. His team of scientists, which includes ex-girlfriend Dr. Linda McKay (Elisabeth Shue) and Dr. Matt Kensington (Josh Brolin), eventually enable the serum to work on a gorilla and restore it to visibility. Sebastian becomes obsessed with Linda while unbeknownst to him, she has become involved with Matt.

Instead of reporting his success to the military, Sebastian lies to the oversight committee which includes his mentor Dr. Howard Kramer (William Devane), convincing his team to go right into human testing. The procedure is successfully performed on Sebastian, but three days later, the reversion fails.

Sebastian is quarantined in the laboratory due to his condition and the researchers construct a latex mask for him to wear around the lab. Unable to cope with the isolation, he heads to his apartment to bring some things back to the lab. There, he spies on his neighbor (Rhona Mitra) and rapes her while fully invisible.

Linda warns him that if he leaves again, she and Matt will tell the committee about the experiment. Ignoring their threat, Sebastian assembles a device that runs a video loop of his heat signature in his quarters. He leaves the lab again and spies on Linda and Matt, becoming enraged when he sees them having sex.

The team soon discover that they have been watching a recording and that Sebastian has been escaping without their knowledge. Linda and Matt go to Dr. Kramer's house and confess their experiments. After they leave, Kramer attempts to warn the military, but Sebastian, who followed Linda and Matt to the house, drowns him in his own swimming pool.

The next day, Sebastian waits until all of the team is in the lab and then disables the phones and all of the elevator codes except for his own. He removes his clothing and latex mask and, invisible, begins to hunt them all down.

Linda and the others hide in the lab while Matt and another technician take tranquilizer guns to hunt for Sebastian using thermal imaging goggles. While on top of a pipe, Sebastian throws the technician toward a steel bar, which hits his carotid artery. Matt tries to shoot Sebastian, but is instead almost killed by Sebastian until Linda drags him to safety.

One of the researchers heads to the freezer to get blood for a transfusion but is killed by Sebastian. He then attacks the others with a crowbar and locks Linda and Matt in the freezer, leaving them to freeze to death.

Linda constructs an electromagnet using a defibrillator and uses it to open the freezer door. She then gathers parts to assemble a flamethrower. Sebastian goes to the lab and creates nitroglycerin and puts it in a centrifuge with a timer to destroy the facility.

Just as he enters the elevator to leave, Linda appears and fires the flamethrower at him. Sebastian barely manages to escape the flames and the two fight. Just as she is about to lose, Matt appears and hits Sebastian with the crowbar. Sebastian recovers and approaches Matt and Linda from behind with the crowbar, but Matt deflects the blow, throwing Sebastian into a nearby circuit box, electrocuting him.

Linda and Matt find the nitroglycerin about to explode, and decide to climb up the elevator shaft to escape. The two are almost out when a injured and partially visible Sebastian appears. He fights with Linda before she grabs the elevator cable and knocks the car loose, sending Sebastian falling to his death. Linda and Matt emerge from the burning laboratory, and medics take them away in an ambulance.

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-[[Geoffrey Canada]] describes his journey as an educator and his surprise when he realizes upon entering adulthood that [[Superman]] is a fictional character and that no one is powerful enough to save us all.
+Scientist Sebastian Caine ([[Kevin Bacon]]) has developed a serum that can make a subject invisible.
-Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves [[tenure]], the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to have an impact on the educational environment. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level.
+His team of scientists, which includes ex-girlfriend Dr. Linda McKay ([[Elisabeth Shue]]) and Dr. Matt Kensington ([[Josh Brolin]]), eventually enable the serum to work on a gorilla and restore it to visibility. Sebastian becomes obsessed with Linda while unbeknownst to him, she has become involved with Matt.
+Instead of reporting his success to the military, Sebastian lies to the oversight committee which includes his mentor Dr. Howard Kramer ([[William Devane]]), convincing his team to go right into human testing. The procedure is successfully performed on Sebastian, but three days later, the reversion fails.
-The film also examines teacher's unions whose main interest is to support current policies and protect teacher's jobs. [[Michelle Rhee]], the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools (the district with some of the worst performing students at the time), is shown attempting to take on the union agreements that teachers are bound to, but suffers a backlash from the unions and the teachers themselves.
+Sebastian is quarantined in the laboratory due to his condition and the researchers construct a latex mask for him to wear around the lab. Unable to cope with the isolation, he heads to his apartment to bring some things back to the lab. There, he spies on his neighbor ([[Rhona Mitra]]) and rapes her while fully invisible.
-Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: [[state school]], [[private school]], and [[charter school]]. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. Since charter schools do not operate with the same restrictions as public institutions, they are depicted as having a more experimental approach to educating students.
+Linda warns him that if he leaves again, she and Matt will tell the committee about the experiment. Ignoring their threat, Sebastian assembles a device that runs a video loop of his heat signature in his quarters. He leaves the lab again and spies on Linda and Matt, becoming enraged when he sees them having sex.
-Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of its applicants, the film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children.
+The team soon discover that they have been watching a recording and that Sebastian has been escaping without their knowledge. Linda and Matt go to Dr. Kramer's house and confess their experiments. After they leave, Kramer attempts to warn the military, but Sebastian, who followed Linda and Matt to the house, drowns him in his own swimming pool.
+The next day, Sebastian waits until all of the team is in the lab and then disables the phones and all of the elevator codes except for his own. He removes his clothing and latex mask and, invisible, begins to hunt them all down.
+Linda and the others hide in the lab while Matt and another technician take [[tranquilizer gun]]s to hunt for Sebastian using thermal imaging goggles. While on top of a pipe, Sebastian throws the technician toward a steel bar, which hits his [[carotid artery]]. Matt tries to shoot Sebastian, but is instead almost killed by Sebastian until Linda drags him to safety.
+One of the researchers heads to the freezer to get blood for a transfusion but is killed by Sebastian. He then attacks the others with a crowbar and locks Linda and Matt in the freezer, leaving them to freeze to death.
+Linda constructs an electromagnet using a [[defibrillator]] and uses it to open the freezer door. She then gathers parts to assemble a flamethrower. Sebastian goes to the lab and creates [[nitroglycerin]] and puts it in a [[centrifuge]] with a timer to destroy the facility.
+Just as he enters the elevator to leave, Linda appears and fires the flamethrower at him. Sebastian barely manages to escape the flames and the two fight. Just as she is about to lose, Matt appears and hits Sebastian with the crowbar.  Sebastian recovers and approaches Matt and Linda from behind with the crowbar, but Matt deflects the blow, throwing Sebastian into a nearby circuit box, electrocuting him.
+Linda and Matt find the nitroglycerin about to explode, and decide to climb up the elevator shaft to escape. The two are almost out when a injured and partially visible Sebastian appears. He fights with Linda before she grabs the elevator cable and knocks the car loose, sending Sebastian falling to his death. Linda and Matt emerge from the burning laboratory, and medics take them away in an ambulance.