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Sphere Details

1998

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Starring	Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote
Director	Barry Levinson
Genres	Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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.

Starring	Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Huey Lewis, James Pickens Jr., Queen Latifah, Marga Gomez, Michael Keys Hall, Bernard Hocke
Director	Barry Levinson
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 8 mins
Certificate
Genres	Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, English
Released	Production year: 1998 To Rent: DVD: 26 Oct 1998

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- Like most American science-fiction movies of the 90s, this is merely an excuse for characters to explore their own inner space in an attempt to come to terms with themselves.
- 29780
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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  could watch this film ...
  
  could watch this film over and over,great cast, good location,5 star
  
  worth watching for anyone really,
  
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  - 11 Feb 2004 at 19:45
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  Sphere : watchable once started
  
  Thought it would kill an evening - but was surprisingly watchable, with some twists at the end.
  
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- - Simon Bartlett
  - Pembrokeshire
  - 18 Nov 2011 at 16:58
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  to the point!
  
  Good film, BUT, if you have read the book then don't bother with the film, it does not do the book justice!
  
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- - patwah
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  - 18 Nov 2011 at 16:36
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  Not half as good as I remembered
  
  I watched this years and years ago late one night on tv and remember thinking it was excellent. My girlfriend and I are both into sci-fi and I said we should ... read more »
  
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- - Ironman451
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  - 22 May 2011 at 00:38
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Latifah insists on living in all her films
- 07 Mar 2010
Queen Latifah has a no-death clause in her movie contract, which prevents directors from killing her characters off. The rapper-turned-actress admits she insisted on the addition to her filming paperwork after characters she played lost their lives in Set It Off and Sphere. The Chicago star says, "It occurred to me, 'Wait a minute, you can't do the sequel if you die in all these movies.' I was like, 'Randy - my agent - no more dying, OK.'" Read more
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  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 ...