Synopsis
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
Memorable quotes from Sphere
"This is as I have said in my Arithmetic:—The area of a circle is equal to the product of the circumference by one-fourth of the diameter [πr²]. That result multiplied by 4 gives the surface of the sphere [4πr²], which is like the net surrounding a hand ball; the same (surface of a sphere) when multiplied by the diameter and divided by six [4/3πr³] becomes invariably the volume of the sphere."
"A sphere is a solid figure described by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains fixed.The axis of a sphere is the fixed straight line about which the semicircle revolves.The centre of a sphere is the same with that of the semicircle.The diameter of a sphere is any straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated both ways by the superficies of the sphere."
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Cast & Crew
Dustin Hoffman
Dr. Norman Goodman
Sharon Stone
Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin
Samuel L. Jackson
Dr. Harry Adams
Peter Coyote
Captain Harold C. Barnes
Liev Schreiber
Dr. Ted Fielding
Queen Latifah
Alice 'Teeny' Fletcher
Marga Gómez
Jane Edmunds
Huey Lewis
Helicopter Pilot
Bernard Hocke
Seaman
James Pickens Jr.
O.S.S.A. Instructor
Michael Keys Hall
O.S.S.A. Official
Ralph Tabakin
O.S.S.A. Official
Barry Levinson
Director
Michael Crichton
Producer
Barry Levinson
Producer
Andrew Wald
Producer
Peter Giuliano
Executive Producer
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