Sphere
(DVD)

Based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

Originally released in 1998 as a motion picture.

Special features include cast and crew profiles; Science fiction films, as essay; making-of documentary Shaping the sphere: art of the special effects supervisor; audio commentary by Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson; tv spots; theatrical trailer.

Music, Elliot Goldenthal ; director of photography, Adam Greenberg ; editor, Stu Linder ; production designer, Norman Reynolds.

Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah, Liev Schreiber, Marga Gomez.

"In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel rests on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend to the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a massive spaceship, undamaged from it's fall from the sky-and at least three hundred years old"--IMDb.

Rated: PG-13; for sci-fi action including some startling images.

DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital, Dolby surround 5.1 (English), surround stereo (French); widescreen.

In English or dubbed French with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.