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"A thousand feet beneath the sea, the blackest holes are in the mind..."
"Terror can fill any space"
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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel rests on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend to the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a massive spaceship, undamaged from it's fall from the sky-and at least three hundred years old.
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General Comments . Based on the novel by Michael Crichton who also wrote "Jurassic Park" and "Disclosure". A spaceship over 400 years old is found 1000 feet below on the bottom of the sea in the South Pacific. Four scientists are rushed to the location to investigate the spaceship. Was this spacecraft really from the future and somehow time traveled through a black hole? They try to open the strange sphere which at first is a difficult and trying task. Communications with the alien object is achieved. What are the real intentions of the spacecraft? And what is happening to the scientists? What is the extraordinary power of the Sphere?
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Hoffman stars as Dr. Norman Goodman, a psychologist who is unexpectedly summoned by the government to a spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There, he joins a cadre of specialists supervised by a mysterious team leader named Barnes (Coyote). Also joining them is Stone as Beth Halperin, a biochemist who shares a past with Goodman; and Jackson as Harry Adams, a skeptical mathematician. The hastily assembled project team is asked to embark on a mission to explore a massive spacecraft that appears to have been submerged, untouched, for almost 300 years on the ocean floor.
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The team quickly travels undersea and takes up residence in a high-tech deep-water habitat while investigating the strange craft. In examining the submerged spacecraft, the team uncovers a remarkable sphere inside it. The sphere's purpose and design are enigmatic but it somehow seems to have intelligence - and is inexplicably seductive. As the team tries to unravel the meaning and function of the sphere, they become cut off from surface contact, their world limited to the claustrophobic habitat, the submerged craft, its baffling sphere - and each other.
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And then, a series of horrifying incidents begin to unfold around them. One by one, the crew's subconscious terrors become real as each person's worst fears become physically manifested. With time and oxygen running out, the team members begin to turn on each other in a frantic search for who--or what--is creating this terror.
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