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Arrival [videorecording (DVD)].

Contributor(s): Publication details: [United States] : Paramount, 2017.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Director, Denis Villeneuve.
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Forest Whitaker, Mark O'Brien.Summary: When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.Review: "Arrival is such a beautiful and thought-provoking film that it almost singlehandedly makes up for every bad aliens-coming-to-Earth film you've ever seen."--Brian Truitt, USA TodayReview: "So sure is the stride of the narrative, and so bracing the air of expectation, that you feel yourself, like Louise, beginning to spin, and barely able to catch your breath."--Anthony Lane, New YorkerReview: "An outstanding sci-fi film with an intergalactic language lesson."--Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
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DVD DVD Hanover Public Library Shelves DVDA ARRIVAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001060616

Director, Denis Villeneuve.

Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Forest Whitaker, Mark O'Brien.

When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

"Arrival is such a beautiful and thought-provoking film that it almost singlehandedly makes up for every bad aliens-coming-to-Earth film you've ever seen."--Brian Truitt, USA Today

"So sure is the stride of the narrative, and so bracing the air of expectation, that you feel yourself, like Louise, beginning to spin, and barely able to catch your breath."--Anthony Lane, New Yorker

"An outstanding sci-fi film with an intergalactic language lesson."--Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times

CHV Rating: PG

DVD.

English, French, Spanish audio; English, French, Spanish subtitles.

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