Sphere Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Production: Warner Home Video
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
35
Rotten Tomatoes:
12%
PG-13
Year:
1998
134 min
838 Views


A GUARD unlocks a large, steel door.

GUARD:

Captain Barnes. Dr. Johnson.

NORMAN:

Hello.

Norman looks at the guard as they proceed through the doorway,

wondering how the guard knows his name.

BARNES:

You talk to any reporters? Any

press?

NORMAN:

Press? No, I haven't.

The steel door shuts loudly behind them.

BARNES:

Good. Security's been our biggest

worry. Now that you're here we can

shut this thing down tight.

NORMAN:

From what? What's with all the

security?

BARNES:

Well, we don't have all the facts

yet.

Another GUARD opens up another large steel door...

INT. TECH ROOM

Barnes leads Norman through the room, crammed with video monitors,

screens, and grids. Officers talk into radios. Technicians work on

computers.

BARNES:

We're moving fast considering the

storm.

NORMAN:

Storm? What storm?

BARNES:

A cyclone's on it's way in. I

thought they would have told you on

the phone.

NORMAN:

They didn't tell me anything.

Norman tries to keep pace...

BARNES:

We've had divers working around the

clock. Take a look at this...

ANGLE ON a large VIDEO SCREEN - shows a diver walking on the ocean

floor, holding a bright artificial flashlight.

NORMAN:

How deep is he?

BARNES:

A thousand feet.

NORMAN:

A thousand? An airplane crashes into

a thousand feet of water -- I don't

want to sound pessimistic here, but

I assume there are no survivors.

BARNES:

Survivors? No, I wouldn't think so.

NORMAN:

Then why am I here?

BARNES:

What?

NORMAN:

What do you need me for?

ON THE VIDEO SCREEN - the diver shines his light on a large, metallic

OBJECT.

BARNES:

What crashed wasn't an airplane, Dr.

Johnson. It's a bit larger than

that.

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Kurt Wimmer

Kurt Wimmer was born in 1964. He is a writer and director, known for Total Recall (2012), Equilibrium (2002) and Law Abiding Citizen (2009). more…

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