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The Arrival (1996) is available on Hoopla with a participating library card. Also available to stream on fuboTV.
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You can watch The Arrival (1996) on Hoopla with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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.
Quiet suburban life dissolves into a paranoid fever dream once a coded signal from the stars turns a routine discovery into a conspiracy. This cerebral thriller swaps mindless explosions for a creeping sense of dread that makes every shadow feel like a threat.
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David Twohy
Cast
Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Phyllis Applegate, Tony T. Johnson, Alan Coates, Leon Rippy, Buddy Joe Hooker
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The Arrival
You can watch The Arrival (1996) on Hoopla with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
IMDb
6.0/10
RT Critics
65%
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Director
David Twohy
Cast
Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Phyllis Applegate, Tony T. Johnson, Alan Coates, Leon Rippy, Buddy Joe Hooker
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