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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sphere is a 1998
American science fiction adventure film, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon
Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson. Sphere was based on the 1987 novel of the
same name by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and The Lost
World. The film was released in the United States on February 13, 1998.
In the middle of the southern Pacific Ocean, a thousand feet below the
surface, what is believed to be an alien spacecraft is discovered after
a ship laying transoceanic cable has its cable cut and the United States
Navy investigates the cause. The thickness of coral growth on the
spaceship suggests that it has been there for almost 300 years. A team
made up of marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone),
mathematician Dr. Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson), astrophysicist Dr.
Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber), psychologist Dr. Norman Johnson (Dustin
Hoffman), and a member of the U.S. Navy (Peter Coyote) is tasked with
investigating the spaceship.
