A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMany 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.
- GoofsWhen Jerry first makes contact, he transmits in code : "MY NAME IS JERRY". Later, the code is revealed to have been mistranslated and the message reads: "MY NAME IS HARRY" If the letters H, E, J, and A in the simple letter/number substitution code were wrong, the first message would have read: "MY NEMA IS JERRY". Also, the entire series of conversations they had would have exhibited the same error, yet none did so. (HAPPY would have been JEPPY, ALL = ELL, etc.)
- Quotes
Dr. Harry Adams: We're all gonna die down here.
Norman Goodman: What?
Dr. Harry Adams: You see? It's curious. Ted did figure it out - time travel. And when we get back, we gonna tell everyone. How it's possible, how it's done, what the dangers are. But then why fifty years in the future when the spacecraft encounters a black hole does the computer call it an 'unknown entry event'? Why don't they know? If they don't know, that means we never told anyone. And if we never told anyone it means we never made it back. Hence we die down here. Just as a matter of deductive logic.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits are cast over an invisible sphere.
- Alternate versionsSPOILER ALERT: An alternate television edit has been shown with a simplified and more ambiguous ending that follows the shooting script; Harry warns them that the authorities are on their way to debrief them, and they will demand answers. The three survivors ready themselves to forget about their mission and the power they possess. Outside, a helicopter sets down. Subsequently, we see the three survivors being interviewed in a debriefing room after decompression, each shot individually against the same background. They react as if they're oblivious to anything going wrong in the Habitat, unaware of anything that happened to Ted, Barnes or the Sphere. The helicopter leaves, and the camera pans down to the ocean, where the Sphere supposedly still remains.
- SoundtracksHorn Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major, K.447
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Vienna Mozart Ensemble; Herbert Kraus, Conductor
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The movie takes place mostly in the dark so it very hard to keep track of where you are, who is present, and what anyone is doing. This movie does not work at all on the small screen.
When reality takes off on a tangent morphing like an acid trip, it felt like being trapped on a merry go round. I felt dizzy and wanted to get off, but the movie kept going and going and going repeating the same chaos, squirting water and loud noises in endless theme and variation. I was SO glad when the movie finally ended.
The acting is so wooden, and the characters so sullen, you don't care if any of the characters survive the ordeal other than Norman, the Dustin Hofmann character who holds the movie together single handedly.
- roedyg
- Jul 7, 2006
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $80,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $37,020,277
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,433,957
- Feb 15, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $37,020,277
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1