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Sphere
1998
· Movie
· 134 min
D
MEANRANK
51/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5200
- IMDb #4352
- Google retired #3150
- Rotten Tomatoes #4922
- Metacritic #4251
- Letterboxd #4470
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5387
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4656
- Metacritic Critics #4561
- Metacritic Audience #3229
- Criticker #2967
- Kinopoisk #2978
- AlloCiné #4661
- Trakt #3992
Every rating
12–74
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 12, highest is Google on 74. Critics average 24, everyone else 57.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A team of scientists—a psychologist, a mathematician, and an astrophysicist—is recruited by the military to investigate a mysterious spacecraft discovered deep on the ocean floor. Inside, they find a perfect sphere of unknown origin. The sphere begins to affect them, making their deepest fears manifest into reality.
Details
- Director
- Barry Levinson
- Writers
- Paul Attanasio, Stephen Hauser
- Based on
- Sphere by Michael Crichton
- Released
- 13 February 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $80.0M
- Box office
- $37.0M
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