The Arrival

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

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Film Cast:

  • Zane Zaminski: Charlie Sheen
  • Ilana Green: Lindsay Crouse
  • Calvin: Richard Schiff
  • Phil Gordian: Ron Silver
  • Char: Teri Polo
  • Mrs. Roosevelt: Phyllis Applegate
  • Kiki: Tony T. Johnson
  • Terraformer: Alan Coates
  • DOD #1: Leon Rippy
  • DOD #2: Buddy Joe Hooker
  • Co-worker: Javier Morga
  • Cabbie: David Villalpando
  • Maid: María Luisa Coronel
  • Reporter #1: Mónica Dionne
  • Reporter #2: Alejandro Usigli
  • Reporter #3: Jacqueline Voltaire
  • Security Woman: Luisa Huertas
  • JPL Official: Roger Cudney
  • JPL Guard #1: Shane
  • JPL Guard #2: Dave Galasso
  • Computer Tech: Georg Lillitsch
  • N.C.A.R. Woman: Catalina Botello
  • Lance (uncredited): David Sherrill
  • Skeleton Man: Ángel de la Peña

Film Crew:

  • Director of Photography: Hiro Narita
  • Casting: Mary Jo Slater
  • Sound Designer: David Farmer
  • Editor: Martin Hunter
  • Casting Director: Claudia Becker
  • Music Editor: Stephen A. Hope
  • Foley: Dennie Thorpe
  • Stunt Coordinator: Buddy Joe Hooker
  • Executive Producer: Ted Field
  • Art Department Coordinator: Marco Niro
  • Animation Director: Raman Hui
  • Costume Design: Mayes C. Rubeo
  • Executive Producer: Robert W. Cort
  • Producer: Thomas G. Smith
  • Casting: Steve Brooksbank
  • Art Direction: Héctor Romero
  • Director: David Twohy
  • Costume Supervisor: Wendy Range
  • Camera Operator: Guillermo Rosas
  • Assistant Editor: Carroll Timothy O’Meara
  • Steadicam Operator: Checco Varese
  • Set Dresser: Carlos Gutiérrez
  • Set Dresser: Patrice Laure
  • Original Music Composer: Arthur Kempel
  • ADR Voice Casting: Mitch Carter
  • Producer: Jim Steele
  • Art Direction: Anthony R. Stabley
  • Stunts: Alisa Christensen
  • Second Unit Director of Photography: Isidore Mankofsky
  • Associate Producer: Lorenzo O’Brien
  • Visual Effects Producer: Charles L. Finance
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Robert Skotak
  • Stunts: Jeff Jensen
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Rich Thorne
  • Visual Effects Compositor: Bob White
  • Camera Loader: Luis David Sansans
  • First Assistant Director: René Villarreal
  • Gaffer: Raman Rao
  • Production Design: Michael Novotny
  • Visual Effects Producer: Rodney Montague
  • Aerial Camera: John M. Stephens
  • Assistant Hairstylist: Regina Reyes
  • Associate Producer: David Tripet
  • Visual Effects Editor: Daniel Arkin
  • Makeup Artist: Felicity Bowring
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Lora Hirschberg
  • Set Decoration: Enrique Estévez Hermelindo
  • Set Decoration: Melo Hinojosa
  • Casting: Rogelio Rojas
  • Casting: Laura Seidel
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Brian Jennings
  • Draughtsman: Carlos Benassini
  • Sound Effects Editor: Ethan van der Ryn
  • Music Editor: Javier Gunther
  • Still Photographer: Bob Marshak
  • VFX Director of Photography: Mark A. Shelton
  • Transportation Coordinator: Geno Hart
  • Post Production Supervisor: Brad Arensman
  • Visual Effects Editor: Amy Pawlowski
  • Property Master: Gilberto Cortes
  • Property Master: Steven Schalk
  • Set Designer: Jaime Rivas Ruiz
  • Construction Coordinator: Fernando Lau
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Hugh Waddell
  • Dialogue Editor: Dianna Stirpe
  • Dolby Consultant: Daniel Sperry
  • Special Effects Coordinator: Laurencio Cordero
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Jeff Burks
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: David B. Sharp
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: John T. Van Vliet
  • Visual Effects Producer: Melissa Taylor
  • Camera Operator: Eric Anderson
  • Script Supervisor: Dea Cantu
  • Publicist: Cirina Catania
  • Studio Teachers: Helen Meidel
  • Location Manager: John A. Johnston
  • VFX Director of Photography: Richard Malzahn
  • Stunt Double: Eddie Braun
  • First Assistant Editor: Elaine C. Andrianos
  • Stunts: Eddy Donno
  • Extras Casting: Jorge Guerrero
  • Second Assistant Camera: Juan Ayala
  • Costume Assistant: Carlos Munguía
  • Electrician: Eduardo Jesús Oviedo Vargas
  • Key Hair Stylist: Marsha Lewis
  • Key Makeup Artist: Gabriel Solana
  • Key Grip: John T. Martin
  • Gaffer: David Jarrell
  • First Assistant Camera: Heriberto Gutiérrez
  • Rigging Gaffer: John Matthews
  • Assistant Editor: Harrison Gibbs
  • Key Grip: Gustavo Covarrubias
  • Makeup Artist: David LeRoy Anderson
  • Assistant Makeup Artist: Greg T. Moon
  • Stunts: Bennie Moore
  • Assistant Hairstylist: Maxine Morris
  • Draughtsman: Daniel Novotny
  • Key Costumer: Jaime Ortiz
  • Storyboard Artist: P.K. MacCarthy
  • Digital Compositor: Marlo Pabon
  • Lighting Supervisor: Jean M. Cunningham
  • 3D Animator: Jongwoo Heo
  • VFX Director of Photography: Les Bernstien
  • Dolly Grip: Ricardo Covarrubias
  • Swing: Brendan C. Fenton
  • Camera Loader: Tamara Goldsworthy
  • First Assistant Camera: Roberto ‘Tito’ Blasini
  • Electrician: Enrique Lara
  • Dolly Grip: Leo Behar
  • Key Grip: Steve Iriguchi
  • Stunts: Billy Hank Hooker
  • Stunts: Rita Morena
  • Draughtsman: Francisco García
  • VFX Director of Photography: Russell j Lyster
  • CG Animator: David Lauer
  • Visual Effects Coordinator: Sharon Hollis
  • Best Boy Grip: Shawn Whelan
  • Script Supervisor: Dee Whitehurst
  • Assistant Editor: Sam Citron
  • Aerial Camera Technician: Scott Whitman
  • Hairstylist: Kim Urgel
  • Assistant Property Master: Campos Memo Granados
  • Construction Foreman: Lawrence Lawson
  • Draughtsman: Luis Amézquita
  • Leadman: Francisco López
  • Swing: Frederico Tellez
  • Swing: Manuel Ordaz López
  • Swing: Randolph W. Day
  • Best Boy Electric: Fred White
  • Camera Loader: Enrique Cervera
  • Electrician: Carlos Sánchez
  • Electrician: Juan J. Valencia
  • First Assistant Camera: Pat Swovelin
  • Second Assistant Camera: Forrest Thurman
  • Assistant Costume Designer: Jeannie Johnson
  • Costume Assistant: Thomas Flynn
  • Tailor: David Jardon
  • Extras Casting: Ray Schaaf
  • Assistant Editor: Arleen Beaty
  • Assistant Editor: Gary Simon
  • Color Timer: Linda DeMarco

Movie Reviews:

  • Gimly: Charlie Sheen channels his inner Kevin Smith in this unique take on the genre. Sure it’s a little X-Files-y, and a lot of the twists are either glaringly obvious or make zero sense, but by and large it’s pretty original. The climate-change message does beat you over the head a little, but only gently, which I can handle. Obviously it didn’t take anyway, considering we’re here twenty years later and the problem’s only gotten worse.
  • _Final rating:★★½ – Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

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