Hoffman stars as Dr.
Norman Goodman, a psychologist who is unexpectedly summoned by the government
to a spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There, he joins a cadre of
specialists supervised by a mysterious team leader named Barnes 
(Coyote).
Also joining them is Stone as Beth Halperin, a biochemist who shares a
past with Goodman; and Jackson as Harry Adams, a skeptical mathematician.
The hastily assembled project team is asked to embark on a mission to explore
a massive spacecraft that appears to have been submerged, untouched, for
almost 300 years on the ocean floor.
The team quickly travels undersea and takes up residence in a high-tech deep-water habitat while investigating the strange craft. In examining the submerged spacecraft, the team uncovers a remarkable sphere inside it. The sphere's purpose and design are enigmatic but it somehow seems to have intelligence - and is inexplicably seductive. As the team tries to unravel the meaning and function of the sphere, they become cut off from surface contact, their world limited to the claustrophobic habitat, the submerged craft, its baffling sphere - and each other.
And then, a series of horrifying incidents begin to unfold around them. One by one, the crew's subconscious terrors become real as each person's worst fears become physically manifested. With time and oxygen running out, the team members begin to turn on each other in a frantic search for who--or what--is creating this terror.
Sphere was directed by Barry Levinson. It topped out with a whopping
budget of $80 million dollars. The cost can be partially attributed
to the fact that some of the movie was filmed in several underwater tanks.
Although the majority of the movie was filmed in dry sets on Mare Island.
The interiors you see were shot on a sound stage constructed in an old
warehouse on Mare Island. The movie, I'm told, closely follows the book.
Here
is (from left to right) Hoffman (Norman) Jackson (Harry) and Schreiber
(Feilding) on the set.
Here
are some cast and crew on the set taking a break.
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