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The Arrival

The Arrival

  • Status: Released
  • 31-05-1996
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Score: 6.001
  • Vote count: 793

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.

Charlie Sheen

Zane Zaminski

Lindsay Crouse

Ilana Green

Richard Schiff

Calvin

Ron Silver

Gordian

Teri Polo

Char

Phyllis Applegate

Mrs. Roosevelt

Tony T. Johnson

Kiki

Alan Coates

Terraformer

Leon Rippy

DOD #1

Buddy Joe Hooker

DOD #2

Javier Morga

Co-Worker

David Villalpando

Cabbie

María Luisa Coronel

Maid

Mónica Dionne

Reporter #1

Alejandro Usigli

Reporter #2

Jacqueline Voltaire

Reporter #3

Luisa Huertas

Security Woman

Roger Cudney

JPL Official

Shane

JPL Guard #1

Dave Galasso

JPL Guard #2

Georg Lillitsch

Computer Tech

Catalina Botello

N.C.A.R. Woman

David Sherrill

Lance (uncredited)

Ángel de la Peña

Skeleton Man

Ellen Bradley

Screaming Woman

Jorge Becerril

Planecorp Guard

Jorge Zepeda

Detective

Ree Johnson

Maintenance Man

Andrea Sisniega

Weather Woman

Gimly

Charlie Sheen channels his inner Kevin Smith in this unique take on the genre. Sure it's a little X-Files-y, and a lot of the twists are either glaringly obvious or make zero sense, but by and large it's pretty original. The climate-change message does beat you over the head a little, but only gently, which I can handle. Obviously it didn't take anyway, considering we're here twenty years later and the problem's only gotten worse. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._