Arrival (film)
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| Directed by | Denis Villeneuve |
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| Screenplay by | Eric Heisserer |
| Based on | "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang |
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| Music by | Jóhann Jóhannsson |
| Cinematography | Bradford Young |
| Edited by | Joe Walker |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $47 million |
| Box office | $185.5 million |
Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. It stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg and Tzi Ma.
Arrival had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2016, and was released in the United States and Canada on November 11, 2016, in IMAX by Paramount Pictures. The film has grossed $185 million worldwide and was praised for its storyline, atmosphere and Adams' performance. The American Film Institute selected it as one of its ten Movies of the Year, and it has been nominated for numerous awards, including eight Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for Adams and Best Original Score.
In what appears to be a flashback scene, linguist Louise Banks is caring for her daughter, who dies during adolescence from cancer. In the present, while Louise is lecturing at a university, twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft appear across the planet. U.S. Army Colonel Weber asks her to join a team, with physicist Ian Donnelly, to decipher their language and find out why they have come to Earth. The team is brought to a U.S. military camp in Montana near one of the spacecraft, and makes contact with two seven-limbed aliens on board. They call the extraterrestrials "heptapods", and Ian nicknames them Abbott and Costello. Louise discovers that they have a written language of complicated circular symbols, and begins to learn the symbols that correspond to a basic vocabulary. As she becomes more proficient, she starts to see and dream vivid images of herself with her daughter.
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