Sphere (Film)
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director: | Barry Levinson |
| Writers: | Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio |
| Director of Photography: | Adam Greenberg |
| Editor: | Stu Linder |
| Music: | Elliot Goldenthal |
| Production Designer: | Norman Reynolds |
| Producers: | Barry Levinson, Michael Crichton and Andrew Wald |
| Warner Bros.; PG-13; 120 minutes | |
| Release: | 2/98 |
| Cast: | Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah, Peter Coyote, and Liev Schreiber |
| Adapted by Kurt Wimmer, based on a novel by Michael Crichton |
It's obvious why Hollywood was sold on an adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1987 novel about a deep sea search for extraterrestrial life; it's a classic recipe for big-screen sci-fi action — just add water. But Sphere leaves out a few key ingredients, namely signs of intelligent life among the crew or the aliens. It turns out the scariest thing about this scientific expedition-- headed up by a psychologist (Hoffman), a lazy mathematician (Jackson), and a tough-bitch astrophysicist (Stone), is not the giant snake or the daredevil diving snaffoos, but bad dialogue.
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