Arrival [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Denis Villeneuve Denis Villeneuve

Overview

Denis Villeneuve directed this science-fiction suspense film about Earth's response to a possible alien invasion. After extraterrestrial spacecraft plant themselves at various locations around the globe, a linguist (Amy Adams) and a theoretical physicist (Jeremy Renner) must find a way to communicate with the mysterious visitors in order to learn what they want and whether they pose a threat to humanity. Forest Whitaker and Michael Stuhlbarg co-star.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/14/2017
UPC:	0032429263421
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00
Sales rank:	2,864

Special Features

Xenolinguistics: Understanding Arrival; Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design; External Recurrance: The Score; Nonlinear Thinking: The Editorial Process; Principles of Time: Memory & Language

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Amy Adams	Dr Louise Banks
Jeremy Renner	Ian Donnelly
Forest Whitaker	Pu¿kownik Weber
Michael Stuhlbarg	Agent Halpern
Mark O'Brien	Captain Marks
Tzi Ma	Genera¿ Shang
Abigail Pniowsky	Hannah (8 yrs. old)
Julia Scarlett Dan	Hannah (12 yrs. old)
Jadyn Malone	Actor
Frank Schorpion	Dr. Kettler
Lucas Chartier-Dessert	Private Lasky
Christian Jadah	Private Combs
Lucy van Oldenbarneveld	CNAC Anchor
Andrew Shaver	Environmental Tech
Pat Kiely	Environmental Tech
Sonia Vigneault	Dr. j. Bydwell
Mark Camacho	Richard Riley
Sabrina Reeves	Press Secretary
Julian Casey	Australian Scientist
Tony Robinow	British Scientist
Larry Day	CIA Officer Dan Ryder
Matthew Willson	Preacher
Ruth Chiang	Chinese Scientist
Russell Yuen	Chinese Scientist
Sergey Marchenko	Russian Officer
Anana Rydvald	Swedish Scientist
Bineyam Girma	Sudan Representative
Abdelghafour Elaaziz	African Representative
Abdul Ayoola	Sierra Leone Representative
Alex M. Yeuh	Japanese Minister
Daniel Esteban	Venezuelan Representative
Albert Kwan	Chinese Man
Brittany Teo	Grad Student with Smartphone
Joe Cobden	Cryptographer
Lorne Brass	Cryptographer
Genevieve Sirois	Cryptographer
Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles	Actor
Michael Nangreaves	Science Team Member
Reda Guerinik	Communication Ops
Adrien Benn	Communication Ops
Sasha Samar	Communication Ops
Kathleen Stavert	Communication Ops
Kattia Thony	Communication Ops
Leisa Reid	Nurse
Brent Skagford	Nurse
Gurdeep Ahluwalia	Lieutenant
Shawn Campbell	Actor
Brian Dunstan	TV Ancor
Dan Duran	TV Anchor
Lori Graham	TV Anchor
Orla Johannes	TV Anchor
John Moore	TV Anchor
Sangita Patel	TV Anchor
Hal Roberts	TV Anchor
Camille Ross	TV Anchor
Ola Sturik	TV Anchor
Tammie Sutherland	TV Anchor
Max Walker	TV Anchor
Marc-André Goulet	TV Anchor
Paul-Antoine Taillefer	TV Anchor
Martin Pelletier Jr.	Motion Capture Heptapod
Nathaly Thibault	Actor
Philippe Hartmann	Actor
Luke Hemsworth	Will Dawkins
Anna Hutchison	Jessica Dawkins
Cheryl Texiera	Teresa Fleming
Christopher Showerman	Johnny Brandt
Wendy Davis	l'agent Tevis
Vincent M. Ward	Marcus Doyle/Marcus Doyle
Tom Atkins	Professor Westlake
Glenn Keogh	Brent Fleming
TJ Jackson	Agent Lem
Kenny Barr	Agent Strugatsky
Tweed Michael Manning	Professor Westlake's Father
Catherine Jerald	Professor Westlake's Mother
John J. Shim	Uber Driver
Shannon Edwards	Hospital Patient
Mustafa Haidari	Foreign Correspondent
Carmela Nossa Guizzo	Hannah (4 yrs. old)
Frank Fiola	Soldier
Sarah Booth	Rachel
Callie Eckley	Shannon Dawkins
Jena Reynolds	Sleepy Bride
Peter Holden	l'agent Banks
Jack Green	l'agriculteur
Johan Johannsson	Composer
Penka Kouneva	Composer
Jóhann Jóhannsson	Composer

Technical Credits

Eric Heisserer

Ted Chiang

Denis Villeneuve	Director
Eric Heisserer	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Dan Levin	Producer
David Linde	Producer
Aaron Ryder	Producer
Shawn Levy	Producer
Stan Wlodkowski	Executive Producer,Producer
Milan Popelka	Executive Producer,Producer
Tory Metzger	Executive Producer,Producer
Karen Lunder	Executive Producer,Producer
Hugues Tremblay	Camera Operator
Frederic Chamberland	Camera Operator
Marc Charlebois	Camera Operator
Kathleen Driscoll-Mohler	Casting
Francine Maisler	Casting
Tristan Thibaudeau	Casting
Michelle Quinn	Production Manager
Helene Ross	Production Manager
Francois Grenon	Sound Mixer
Claude La Haye	Sound Mixer
Marc DeSourdy	Stunts
Ryal Cosgrove	Special Effects Supervisor
Pierre-Jules Audet	Sound Effects
Niels Barletta	Sound Effects
Mathieu Beaudin	Sound Effects
Nicolas Becker	Sound Effects
Sylvain Bellemare	Sound Effects
Ted Chiang	Screenwriter
Glen Basner	Executive Producer,Producer
Christopher Ahrens	Special Effects
Dan Levine	Producer
Paul Salamoff	Director
Robert Hollocks	Executive Producer
Amy Rhinehart Bailey	Producer
Dan Cohen	Producer,Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

They're here, and we don't know what they want. It's the basis of so many science-fiction films fixated on the idea of extraterrestrial life. Sometimes they come to us for help, sometimes to annihilate, sometimes just to coexist. In Arrival, the cerebral and singular new movie from French-Canadian master Denis Villeneuve, perhaps they've come to hold a mirror up to humanity. Shortly after 12 monolithic spacecraft land on Earth, linguistics professor Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is approached by the U.S. military. Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker) presents Banks with a recording of the alien language, and asks her to decode it and figure out why they've come to our planet. Banks is joined by mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) as they head to rural Montana -- the landing spot of one of the ships. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal pieces of Banks' life up to this point: Her daughter died at a young age, and the resulting heartache eventually tore apart her marriage. Every 18 hours a door on the ship opens and allows the military and scientists to enter, and they soon discover that the alien visitors are towering, squid-like creatures obscured by fog in a glass enclosure. Referred to as the Heptapods, they have verbal and written means of communication -- the latter formed in disappearing ink that takes the shape of complex spheres. Banks leads the team of scientists in making contact and subsequently trying to decipher the messages. As nations across the world try to coordinate their individual findings with a global coalition, trigger fingers become antsy as some countries consider simply giving up on communication in favor of violence. The importance of Banks' own life to the movie becomes clearer as she gets closer to cracking the Heptapods' language. It seems almost imprudent to try to contextualize any more of the plot details of Arrival, which screenwriter Eric Heisserer adapted from the award-winning short-fiction piece Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. The emotional heft of the picture, which will inaccurately be dubbed a twist, builds over the course of the film as the sense of scope comes into focus along with the characters' development. Audiences have become trained to anticipate a grand reveal, particularly in modern science fiction, but Arrival skillfully subverts that trend by instead providing a coherent arc toward a moving finale. Villeneuve forgoes grandiosity in favor of simple storytelling. That's not to say that the subject matter (determinism, communication, geopolitical cooperation) is simple (quite the opposite), but that he's able to interpret a worldwide event through the lens of a personal story. It's heady, adult sci-fi dressed up as big-budget fare. In addition, the director has surrounded himself with a cast and crew at the top of their game; this is Amy Adams' finest work to date, much like Emily Blunt's performance in Villeneuve's thriller Sicario was her own personal best. Adams tackles the sadness, curiosity, and fear of her character, shining through when the film reaches its expressive climax. Bradford Young's cinematography is serene and haunting, while composer Johann Johannsson punctuates the proceedings with an emotive score. Arrival is a terrific piece of genre-melding work, an intellectually stimulating and visually entertaining journey. It's a profound ride into the unknown as well as a strikingly human film, one that's concerned much more with the feebleness of language and the fragility of time than with its mysterious extraterrestrial visitors.