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The Arrival

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

1996 · PG-13 · 1h 55m

Directed by David Twohy

6.0

TMDB audience score
894 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • Charlie Sheen
    Zane Zaminski

  • Lindsay Crouse
    Ilana Green

  • Richard Schiff
    Calvin

  • Ron Silver
    Gordian

  • Teri Polo
    Char

  • Phyllis Applegate
    Mrs. Roosevelt

  • Tony T. Johnson
    Kiki

  • Alan Coates
    Terraformer

  • Leon Rippy
    DOD #1

  • Buddy Joe Hooker
    DOD #2

  • Javier Morga
    Co-Worker

  • David Villalpando
    Cabbie

  • María Luisa Coronel
    Maid

  • Mónica Dionne
    Reporter #1

  • Alejandro Usigli
    Reporter #2

  • Jacqueline Voltaire
    Reporter #3

  • Luisa Huertas
    Security Woman

  • Roger Cudney
    JPL Official