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Sphere| 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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