Strange World (1999)

Genres - Drama, Science Fiction, Science & Technology  |   Run Time - 60 min.  |   Countries - Canada, United States  |  
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

A science-fiction drama produced for ABC, Strange World concerns Paul Turner (Tim Guinee), a one-time Army scientist who was one of a battalion exposed to a dangerous but unidentified chemical while serving in the Gulf War in 1991. While the other members of his platoon died, Turner has instead lived on, albeit with a chronic illness that is taking a horrible toll on his body. A mysterious Japanese Woman (Vivian Wu) periodically gives him an unidentified drug that gives him relief from his symptoms, but Turner is in constant and frantic search, trying to determine what it is that's killing him, what he can do about it, and why the Army is trying to keep the whole matter a secret.

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army, chemistry, danger, disease, gulf, platoon, scientist, war