Tempting Fate

Tempting Fate

96 mins | Science Fiction | April 5, 1998

A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He goes and sees the woman he loves is still alive in that world and wants to stay. But when he discovers that this world has rules that differ from his world, he wants to leave but when he goes back to where the machine is, there's a fire and the machine is destroyed and the man who built it is killed. He later meets a woman from his world who also built a machine of her own but the officials there upon seeing her thinks she's crazy because her counterpart is alive and says she doesn't know her. So he tries to help her so that they can return home.

Tempting Fate

96 mins | Science Fiction | April 5, 1998

Tempting Fate
A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He goes and sees the woman he loves is still alive in that world and wants to stay. But when he discovers that this world has rules that differ from his world, he wants to leave but when he goes back to where the machine is, there's a fire and the machine is destroyed and the man who built it is killed. He later meets a woman from his world who also built a machine of her own but the officials there upon seeing her thinks she's crazy because her counterpart is alive and says she doesn't know her. So he tries to help her so that they can return home.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Singer/White Entertainment Production
Original title Tempting Fate
Directors Peter Werner
Writers Justin DiPego, Gerald Di Pego

Cast

Tate Donovan

as Dr. Ben Creed

Abraham Benrubi

as John Bollandine

Matt Craven

as Emmett Lach

Philip Baker Hall

as Dr. Bardwell

Grace Phillips

as Melody

Philip Casnoff

as Richard Davis

Ming-Na Wen

as Ellen Moretti

John O'Hurley

as Stewart

Paul Ben-Victor

as Police officer