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Sphere is a science fiction movie, released on February 13, 1998, starring Dustin Hoffman as Dr. Norman Goodman (Johnson in the novel), Sharon Stone as Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin, Liev Schreiber as Dr. Ted Fielding and Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Harry Adams. Sphere was based on the 1987 novel Sphere by Michael Crichton.

Plot

In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, an alien spacecraft is discovered by the US Navy. A team is assembled, with the task of making contact with any alien life inside the spacehip, made up of scientists specialising in various fields, a psychiatrist and a member of the US Navy. The team are housed in a state of the art underwater living environment during their stay on the ocean floor.

Upon entering the spaceship two startling discoveries are made. The first is that the ship is American, and was in service in the year 2047 gathering objects from around the galaxy to bring back to Earth, until an 'Unknown Event' takes place.

The second discovery is a large metallic perfect sphere held inside the ship which has very unusual properties.

Ted hypothesises that the unkown event in the ships log was the ship inadvertently crashing into a black hole, which propelled it several hundred years backwards through time.

Harry then comes to the conclusion that they will all die on the ocean floor, because if the event is due to happen in the future and no-one knows, then the team must never make it back to the surface to tell anyone about it. This becomes the premise of the film.

After this discovery, a massive surface storm drives them to cover on the sea floor for one week. The group then faces a series of crises, including a giant squid, electrical fires and water snakes, which are all believed to be the work of an alien intelligence (the sphere) called Jerry.

Over the course of the film various members of the team are killed off until only Harry, Norman and Beth remain. At this point they realise that the three of them all entered the sphere which gave them the power to manifest their thoughts into reality, and that all the disasters that had been plaguing them were the result of manifestations of the worst parts of their own minds.

Once the storm passes, an angry thought by Beth causes the charges on a batch of explosives near the ship to be armed, resulting in a rush to escape to the surface on the mini submersible before the spaceship and underwater living environment are destroyed.

The film ends with the three deciding to give up their powers to prevent them falling into the wrong hands and to forget the whole incident occurred, preserving causality.

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