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MPAA Rating - PG13

Length:
    135 Minutes

Genre:
    Science Fiction

Original Release Date:
    Jul 14, 1998

Director
    Barry Levinson

Cast
    Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber

 
Movie Summary
Barry Levinson directed this $100+ million adaptation of Michael Crichtons science fiction novel about the investigation of a half-mile-long spacecraft sitting on the South Pacific ocean floor. Government functionary Barnes (Peter Coyote) assembles a crack scientific team -- psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman), who wrote a presidential report on alien contact; biochemist Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone), once involved romantically with Goodman; mathematician Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson); and astrophysicist Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber). After descending a thousand feet, they set up housekeeping at their underwater Habitat base, suit up, and enter the craft, finding evidence that its a U.S. ship from the future. However, the crafts cargo of a shimmering, golden sphere is definitely alien. After Harry contrives to enter the sphere, Norman notes his odd behavior. When the Habitat computer system receives an email message from the sphere (I am happy), its not long before the messages from this entity take a threatening turn (I will kill you all), triggering fears to surface along with violent attacks to the Habitat. The film is divided into chapters, such as The Ride Down, The First Exchange, and The Monster. Shot on soundstages at the abandoned Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo, California), the effects combine animation, miniatures, prosthetics, animatronics, and digital images. Ed Asner reads the Sphere audiobook. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide


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