The Arrival

1996 · 115 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.0 (838 votes)

Dir. David Twohy · Starring Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Phyllis Applegate · Music Arthur Kempel · The Arrival Collection

“The greatest danger facing our world has been the planet's best kept secret... until now.”

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Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

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A creeping sense of dread permeates this atmospheric 90s sci-fi thriller. It feels like unraveling a vast, unsettling conspiracy, where every discovery deepens the paranoia. The experience is one of constant suspicion and a desperate search for truth against an unseen, overwhelming force.

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