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1996 · Mexico, United States

The Arrival

Tonight at a glance

Runtime
115 min
Age rating
PG-13
Language
English
Country
Mexico, United States
Frights
Strong

Why tonight?

  • It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.

The story

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.

  • greenhouse effect
  • global warming
  • alien
  • extraterrestrial
  • astronomer
  • conspiracy
  • scientist
  • alien invasion
  • foot chase
  • desert

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Directed
David Twohy

Production

Rating
6.0 / 10 · 863 ratings
Studio
Live Entertainment, Steelwork Films, Mediaworks