Sphere
Terror can fill any space.
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin.A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate.However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
- Director
- Barry Levinson
- Signature
- Tension · Wonder · Craft
- Worldwide
- $37M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
12 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Sphere actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Sphere appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Best Time Travel Movies Ranked #30
Placed at #30 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Sphere returned 0.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $80M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $37M
- Release date
- Feb 13, 1998
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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