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When a half-mile-long spacecraft is discovered sitting on the South Pacific ocean floor, a government functionary Barnes (Peter Coyote) assembles a crack scientific team, psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman), who wrote a presidential report on alien contact; biochemist Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone), once involved romantically with Goodman; mathematician Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson); and astrophysicist Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber). After descending a thousand feet, they set up housekeeping at their underwater Habitat base, suit up, and enter the craft, finding evidence that it's a U.S. ship from the future. However, the craft's cargo of a shimmering, golden sphere is definitely alien. After Harry contrives to enter the sphere, Norman notes his odd behavior. When the Habitat computer system receives a message from the sphere, it's not long before the messages from this entity take a threatening turn, triggering fears to surface along with violent attacks to the Habitat.
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