The Arrival

~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.

Genres

General Information

Release Date: 1996-05-31
Budget: $25000000
Revenue: $14063331
Runtime: 115 min

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