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The Arrival

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

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PG-13 1996 · 1h 55m
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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.

Theatrical
May 31, 1996
Box Office
$14.1M
Budget
$25.0M
Return
0.6x
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 1, 1997
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1
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Live Entertainment, Steelwork Films, Mediaworks
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The Arrival is a 1996 American-Mexican science fiction horror film directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen. A sequel, Arrival II: The Second Arrival was released on November 6, 1998.

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