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Sphere

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Plot

A spacecraft is discovered on the floor 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 Habitat, a state-of-the-art underwater living environment, to investigate.

Cast

Dustin Hoffman as Dr. Norman Goodman
Dustin Hoffman

as Dr. Norman Goodman

Sharon Stone as Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin
Sharon Stone

as Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin

Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Harry Adams
Samuel L. Jackson

as Dr. Harry Adams

Peter Coyote as Captain Harold C. Barnes
Peter Coyote

as Captain Harold C. Barnes

Liev Schreiber as Dr. Ted Fielding
Liev Schreiber

as Dr. Ted Fielding

Queen Latifah as Alice 'Teeny' Fletcher
Queen Latifah

as Alice 'Teeny' Fletcher

Marga Gómez as Jane Edmunds
Marga Gómez

as Jane Edmunds

Huey Lewis as Helicopter Pilot
Huey Lewis

as Helicopter Pilot

Bernard Hocke as Seaman
Bernard Hocke

as Seaman

James Pickens Jr. as O.S.S.A. Instructor
James Pickens Jr.

as O.S.S.A. Instructor

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG-13

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • February 13, 1998

Production Companies

  • Warner Bros. Pictures

  • Punch Productions

  • Baltimore Pictures

  • Constant c Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $80,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $37,020,277.00

Runtime

  • 2.23 hrs

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Reviews

Interesting idea but poorly executed and overly long. Acting was okay but nobody really stood out. At least some of the effects weren't too bad for 1998. I actually back in the day read the novel but don't remember anything from it, just know this adaptation was pretty different. **2.5/5**

Great watch, would watch again, and do recommend. I feel like I have a thing for the isolationism of deep sea bases. "Bioshock", "Deep Blue Sea", "The Meg", "Underwater", "The Abyss": just the idea of being far away from any help in the most dangerous living conditions possible on the planet. Add in a mysteriously time traveling alien sphere and let bake in the survival situation where peo…

**_The power to actualize your thoughts and fears_** A huge spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific ocean with a strange, humming sphere found inside. A team of scientists are sent down to investigate – a psychologist (Dustin Hoffman), a mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson), a biochemist (Sharon Stone) and an astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber). Two notable characters at the station on the ocean floo…