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Mood:
- SuspensefulScaryAtmosphericMind BendingTense
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Plot:
- InvestigationAlien EncounterDangerEscapadesSpace and AliensEvil AlienSupernatural AbilityRace Against Time more...
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Genres:
- AdventureSci-FiThrillerActionHorror
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- Ocean or Sea
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousFantastic
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Sphere, 1998
English
USA
Profile of Sphere
The mood of Sphere is scary, suspenseful, and mind bending. The plot centers around an alien encounter, an investigation, and escapades. It is a thriller, adventure, and sci-fi movie. In approach, Sphere is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, in an ocean or sea. It happens in the 1990s. Sphere is based on a book. It is especially suggested for a boys' night.
Summary of Sphere
When psychologist Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman) wrote a report for the government on how to deal with extraterrestrial life forces, he didn't expect his recommendations to be used. Now that a secret government agency is investigating what may be an alien spaceship that has been discovered partially buried on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, Norman finds that the plan he outlined is being put into effect and that the team he named in his report has been assembled. In addition to Norman, there is Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson), a mathematician; Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber), a physicist; and Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone), a biochemist and Norman's old flame. Led by the secretive Barnes (Peter Coyote), the foursome undergoes a crash course in diving and living under the sea in a naval habitat and begins investigating the mysterious vessel, discovering a huge glowing sphere made of an unidentifiable substance with a shimmering, almost liquidlike surface. As the investigation continues, a series of strange, horrific events leads the team of scientists to doubt each other's sanity and motives. The film is based on the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 13 February 1998 |
| Runtime: | 134 min |
Cast and Crew
as Dr. Norman Goodman
as Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin
as Dr. Harry Adams
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Mick LaSalle
The New York Times
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
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