Sphere PG-13
A thousand feet beneath the sea, the blackest holes are in the mind...
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 8, 2009
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson & Sharon Stone | |
Performer: | Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah, Marga Gomez, Huey Lewis, Michael Keys Hall, Bernard Hocke & James Pickens, Jr. | |
Directed by | Barry Levinson | |
Edited by | Stu Linder | |
Screenwriting by | Kurt Wimmer, Stephen Hauser & Paul Attanasio | |
Composition by | Elliot Goldenthal | |
Story by | Michael Crichton | |
Produced by | Barry Levinson, Michael Crichton & Andrew Wald | |
Director of Photography: | Adam Greenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Three major stars being involved, it all wraps up happily but implausibly.
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Time Out
Rating: D --
Let's face facts: Michael Crichton is a hack. He comes up with innovative concepts, but his characters are cardboard cutouts. Given the psychological foundations of the story, that's an egregious flaw, and the ending is absurdly dissatisfying.
AboutFilm.com
...The set-up is intriguing....Levinson keeps the action moving at a fast clip....The film also benefits from its eerie deep-sea setting and some smashing special effects...
Box Office
An empty shell.
Variety
Rating: 2/4 --
The central idea for Sphere is an intriguing one, but similar concepts have been much better executed on episodes of Star Trek, which makes one wonder why movie writing is allowed to be so bad.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 2/5 --
As the umpteenth entrant in the We-Are-Not-Alone sweepstakes, Sphere feels awfully familiar because it is.
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Los Angeles Times
...Fresh....Witty...and packed with possibilities...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 22,476
- UPC: 883929077373
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