Arrival

2016
PG-13
1h 56m

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7.9/10

793K

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Alien Invasion Psychological Drama Sci-Fi Epic Drama Mystery Sci-Fi

Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to ... Read allLinguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

793K

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POPULARITY

733

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Won 1 Oscar
- 71 wins & 268 nominations total

Trivia
Director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer created a fully functioning, visual, alien language. Heisserer, Villeneuve, and their teams managed to create a "logogram bible", which included over a hundred different, completely operative logograms, seventy-one of which are actually used in the movie.

Goofs
In the main landings chart, the Australian contact point seems to be in the Indian Ocean off Geralton in Western Australia. Later, there is a brief shot of an alien spacecraft with central Sydney in the distance across water; Sydney is on Australia's east coast.

Quotes
Louise Banks: But now I'm not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived.

Crazy credits
Denis Villeneuve's daughter, Salomé Villeneuve, is listed as "Hazmat Suit Specialist".

Connections
Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Amy Adams/Jeremy Renner/Chris O'Dowd/Niall Horan (2016)

Soundtracks
On the Nature of Daylight
Written and Performed by Max Richter
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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Featured review

8/10

Visionary...

From where they came, nobody knows, but now they're here, and as you'd guess the world is rife with dread and fear, but there's one thing they all agree, communication is the key, and that's exactly at the centre of, your sphere. So you're lucky when the army comes a calling, it's not too long before your upward bound and falling, where you find two heptapods, who could give you quite a prod, it's engaging, thrilling, scary and enthralling. Alas, the story is too good to give away, after barriers of words and shapes have played, often cryptic, intertwined - complex, deep, just as designed, a piece of cinema that has come, from the top grade.