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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.
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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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 129
- FilmAffinity ID
- 556710
- Official website
- www.warnerbros.com/sphere
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- publication date
- 1998-02-13
- title
- Sphere
- review score
- 13%
- capital cost
- 80000000
- box office
- 37020277
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Sphere is a 1998 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed and produced by Barry Levinson, adapted by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson. The film centers on a large mysterious underwater object discovered by Navy divers. It is based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name.
The film was released by Warner Bros. in the United States on February 13, 1998, to negative reviews and was a box office failure, grossing $73.4 million against a $73–80 million budget.