Sphere
A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Released
- 1998
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1998
Storyline
A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
Top credits
Dustin Hoffman ā Norman
Sharon Stone ā Beth
Samuel L. Jackson ā Harry
Peter Coyote ā Barnes
Did you know
ā¢ Samuel L. Jackson would work on this film during the week, and then work on Jackie Brown (1997) on the weekends.
ā¢ Many scenes, like Harry (Samuel L. Jackson) and Norman's (Dustin Hoffman's) conversation about making up the ULF report and dealing with Ted (Liev Schreiber), were completely improvised.
ā¢ The ending had to be re-shot, because test audiences could not believe that the characters could survive without spending weeks in decompression.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $37,020,277
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $14,433,957 (1998-02-15)
User reviews
You can feel the potential for a great film here, but there are sadly a few issues holding "Sphere" back from being anything more than "ok."
A strangely disappointing adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel that comes off to a smashing good start but very quickly approaches a precipitous downhill.
Great potential falls flatter and flatter as it goes...
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- Color
- Color
