Hardcover
Published in 1987
by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
385 pages.
Paperback
Published in 1988
by Ballantine Books
371 pages.
A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old....
Sphere Produced by: Baltimore Pictures and Michael Crichton Directed by: Barry Levinson Written by: Kurt Wimmer, Stephen Hauser, Paul Attanasio Based on a novel by: Michael Crichton Starring:
Dustin Hoffman
as Dr. Norman Goodman
Sharon Stone
as Beth Halperin
Samuel L. Jackson
as Harry Adams
Peter Coyote
as Barnes
Originally Released: 1998 Runtime: 113 minutes
A thousand feet beneath the Pacific, officials have found a spacecraft half a mile long, and three hundred years old. Where did it come from? And what is still alive onboard the ship? An elite underwater team finds the answer.
