The Arrival (1996)

05/31/1996 (MX) • 1h 55m

Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror

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

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast


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Part of the The Arrival Collection

Includes The Arrival, The Second Arrival

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$25,000,000.00

Revenue

$14,063,331.00

Keywords

greenhouse effect

global warming

alien

extraterrestrial

astronomer

conspiracy

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alien invasion

foot chase

desert

climatologist

observatory

alien language

golf club

liquid nitrogen

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cosmic zoom

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radio telescope

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