Superwoman The Movie

Superwoman, also known as Superwoman: The Movie, is a super heroine movie by Ronda Donner. It is the first in the Superwoman Film quadrilogy.

Synopsis for "Superwoman: The Movie"
Thirty years ago on the planet Krypton, leading scientist Jor-El tries to warn the Council about the impending doom of Krypton's destruction, but the members of the Council fear that Jor-El is inciting sedition with his doomsday forecast. Earlier on Jor-El had to deal with General Zod, who along with two other dangerous criminals Ursa and Non were inciting sedition against Krypton's government; they were punished and sentenced to eternal imprisonment in the Phantom Zone. Realizing that his warnings are falling on deaf ears, Jor-El returns home to his wife Lara, saying that now is the time to put their young daughter Kala Jor-El into the star ship which he intends to launch and send to the planet called Earth. Lara sees the Earth as being primitive and that Kala Jor-El will be a stranger among them, but Jor-El assures her that his daughter shall never be alone. As they watch the star ship rise into the sky and depart from Krypton, the ground crumbles underneath their feet and everyone else's until both Krypton and its sun explodes.

The star ship carrying Kala Jor-El, however, survives and travels through space, causing the child to age a few years while also educating her. It burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere and crash-lands in a nearby Smallville field, causing Jonathan and Martha Kent to pull over and investigate. They see a young three-year-old child emerge from the wreckage unharmed. The Kents discuss what they wish to do with the child when the truck falls off the jack, almost crushing Jonathan who was working underneath it to change a flat tire. Kala Jor-El easily lifts up the truck, making the Kents wonder if the child really came from outer space somewhere.

At age 18, Kala Jor-El, who is now Claire Kent, is busy putting away equipment for the Smallville High's football team when her friend Lana Lang invites her over to listen to records. Claire accepts the offer, but realizes that she has so much work to do and so watches Lana drive off with her friends. Frustrated, Claire kicks a football high into the air and then races back home at super-speed, amazingly outracing an approaching locomotive. Her adoptive father Jonathan Kent tells her that he was brought here to Earth with the powers she has for a purpose, and it wasn't for showing off in front of her friends. As Claire tries to get her father to race her to the house, Jonathan suffers a fatal stroke and dies, making Claire feel ashamed that with all her powers, she couldn't save her father.

Sometime following the funeral, Claire Kent is called into the barn, where she uncovers the wrecked star ship and finds the very thing that has called her: a glowing green crystal. She says goodbye to her mother Martha and then sets out toward the North Pole, where she flings the green crystal into the frozen Arctic Sea. From where it lands, it creates a structure made of slanted long white crystals into which Claire enters. By inserting a crystal into a tube, she causes the image of her real father Jor-El appear before her, to instruct her on what she needs to know about herself and about the powers she possesses, learning that her real name is Kala Jor-El. She spends 12 years in the Fortress with the image of Jor-El teaching her, and then later at the end of the teaching, as Jor-El's image departs, Claire Kent now stands in the uniform of a super heroine and soon takes off to her destiny.

Arriving in Metropolis, Claire Kent is hired on as a reporter for the Daily Planet by its editor Perry White, who immediately assigns her to work alongside his best reporter Lawrence Lane. As Lawrence shows Claire around the city and the Planet, a man in a suit named Otis makes his way through the underground subway tunnels until he enters a secret passageway that leads him to the palatial residence of Alexandra " Lex " Luthor, the greatest criminal mastermind. Lex takes the paper Otis delivers her and notices that the U.S. military is planning to do some nuclear missile tests soon, which she hopes to use for her latest scheme of owning what would eventually become valuable real estate.

That night, as Lawrence attempts to take off on an assignment in a Daily Planet helicopter, it spins out of control and teeters dangerously off the edge of the roof. Lawrence screams for help as he hangs on for dear life, slowly losing his grip. Claire hears his call and quickly changes into her uniform to rescue both Lawrence and the helicopter. After landing safely back on the helipad, Lawrence asks who she is, and all she could say is, "a friend", before she takes off, causing him to faint.

But more surprises would come that night: a would-be cat burglar would be scared by the sight of a woman standing in front of him on the side of a building; a group of bank robbers escaping on a boat would have them and their boat hauled all the way to the Metropolis police headquarters; a little girl's cat would be gently rescued from a tree by a flying woman; and Air Force One would have a "replacement engine" when lightning struck one of its engines, causing it to nearly crash-land. The flying woman behind it all would make front-page news everywhere, and Perry wants his reporters to get the scoop on who this woman is.

Lawrence, however, is given a secret message by "a friend" to meet her at his place that evening. Believing that it's the same person who rescued him, Lawrence waits until she shows up, then casually eases his way into doing an interview with her to find out who she is, where she came from, what her abilities and weaknesses are. His friend invites Lawrence to take him out on a flight to test that particular ability together, and so he bravely holds on as she flies him all around the city, around the Statue of Liberty, and even high into the clouds. It is after he takes him back to his apartment and flies away that Lawrence gives her the suitable name -- Superwoman. With his interview in the papers, Lex Luthor now plots on how she can get rid of a possible threat to her plans.

One day as Claire Kent is pulled into Perry White's office for a talk, her ears pick up a high-pitched shrill and the voice of a man threatening to detonate a bomb in the middle of the city. She quickly changes into Superwoman and follows the voice to the underground lair of Lex Luthor, where she is subjected to a gauntlet of dangers that she survives through without a scratch before entering. Now having Superwoman's attention, Luthor shows her the plan of detonating two nuclear devices that she and her lackeys have reprogrammed to specific locations: the first toward the San Andreas Fault where it will cause a massive earthquake that will level much of California into the sea; the other heading toward Hackensack, New Jersey. Luthor also tricks Superwoman into opening a lead-lined box that had a chunk of Kryptonite attached to a chain, which Luthor wraps around the Kryptonian's neck as its radiation weakens her before being dumped into Luthor's pool to drown.

While Luthor watches the launch of the nuclear missiles, Evan Tessmacher fears for the life of his mother in Hackensack and so bravely rescues Superwoman for the promise that she would stop the missile heading for the East Coast first, throwing the chain with the Kryptonite away into a sewer grating. Racing as quickly as she could after the missile, Superwoman manages to grab it from behind and push it toward outer space where it will detonate harmlessly. But as she looks back, she sees that the other missile has hit its target, and now she has to stop a massive earthquake from destroying millions of lives -- including those of her friends Jimmy Olson and Lawrence Lane, who are assigned to do a story about the land grab on the western side of the San Andreas Fault.

Though Superwoman succeeds in replugging the fault line before it completely collapsed, the aftershocks still do some major damage: the Golden Gate Bridge slowly falls apart, causing a school bus to be pushed dangling off the side of the bridge; a rip in the ground across a railroad track threatens to derail a racing locomotive; the Hoover Dam is cracking and is about to deluge a nearby community. As Superwoman deals with each of these dangers as fast and as efficiently as possible, yet she doesn't come to Lawrence's rescue in time before he is crushed to death in her car as a rip in the ground swallows up his vehicle. Enraged by this loss, Superwoman causes time to miraculously reverse itself, undoing all the damage that the detonated missile has caused, and then causes it to go forward again, so all that Lawrence remembers is that his car just ran out of gas.

After meeting with Lawrence and Jimmy again to make sure everything is all right with them, particularly with Lawrence who is now starting to cast eyes on her, Superwoman brings Luthor and Otis into custody with the police, putting them in prison where they belong.