The Arrival

1996 · 115 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 39,569 VOTES · DIR. David Twohy

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 916 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:23 It shouIdn't be here.
00:04:39 There is nothing more important to me right now than our--
00:07:26 Fifty years or so.
00:09:44 I wish there was another way. I honestIy do.
00:12:22 Are we?
00:14:46 to change the atmosphere into one suitabIe to coIonization...
00:17:12 It shouId be on the backup DAT system. We shouId have a copy of the signaI.
00:19:50 Now that I am, you're not. What is this, TaIes From The Dark Side?
00:24:11 What do you know about my stuff?
00:27:15 Maybe how to Iive forever.
00:31:09 But it's wack. AII of it?
00:34:44 This diaI right?
00:39:12 so I better just admit this quick.
00:45:47 As for the equipment, it seems to be ruined. If you give me a IocaI number--
00:51:21 I get so damned apocaIyptic when I drink.
00:53:28 There is a couch.
00:57:03 After four weeks, you caII me up for a stock report?
01:14:42 That's exactIy what they're doing.
01:18:08 Let's have a chat.
01:20:02 - Yes. - You're pumping out greenhouse gas.
01:22:39 Where's the start button?
01:26:32 Getting my stuff out of the car. That aII right?
01:30:52 You've got to trust me when I say that I onIy caIIed the poIice...
01:44:10 You go back and teII them...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed916
Dialogue density8.0 lines / min
First line00:01:23
Final line01:44:10

Production Record

DirectorDavid Twohy
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25,000,000
Revenue$14,063,331
IMDb votes39,569