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6.1A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
Released: 1998-02-13134 minDir: Barry LevinsonScience Fiction, Mystery, ThrillerBudget: $80.0MBox office: $37.0M
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Dr. Norman Goodman
- Sharon Stone as Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin
- Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Harry Adams
- Peter Coyote as Captain Harold C. Barnes
- Liev Schreiber as Dr. Ted Fielding
- Queen Latifah as Alice 'Teeny' Fletcher
Themes
- space marine
- based on novel or book
- ocean
- extraterrestrial technology
- paranoia
- time travel
- time bomb
- alien
- psychologist
- ocean floor
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Barry Levinson
- Screenplay by
- Stephen Hauser Paul Attanasio
- Adaptation by
- Kurt Wimmer
- Based on
- Sphere , by Michael Crichton
- Produced by
- Barry Levinson Michael Crichton Andrew Wald
- Starring
- Dustin Hoffman Sharon Stone Samuel L. Jackson Peter Coyote Liev Schreiber
- Cinematography
- Adam Greenberg
- Edited by
- Stu Linder
- Music by
- Elliot Goldenthal
- Production company
- Baltimore Pictures
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- February 13, 1998 ( 1998-02-13 )
- Running time
- 134 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $73–80 million
- Box office
- $73.4 million
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Official website
WarnerBros.com | Sphere | Movies
Far below the surface in the mid-Pacific, U.S. officials have isolated what may be the greatest discovery in human history.
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