When you get there, you will understand.
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
AdventureThrillerScience Fictionseaflying saucersubmarineoceandiving suitsecret missioninsanitynuclear missileu.s. navyalien life-formufowarning
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Character
Earnest, epic, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Ed HarrisVirgil 'Bud' Brigman
- Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioLindsey Brigman
- Michael BiehnLieutenant Hiram Coffey
- Leo BurmesterCatton ‘Catfish’ De Vries
- Todd GraffAlan 'Hippy' Carnes
- John Bedford LloydJammer Willis
- Kimberly ScottLisa 'One Night' Standing
- Chris ElliottBendix
- J.C. QuinnArliss 'Sonny' Dawson
- Pierce Oliver Brewer, Jr.Lew Finler
Crew
- James CameronDirector
- James CameronWriter
- Mikael SalomonDirector of Photography
- Alan SilvestriOriginal Music Composer
- Howard E. SmithEditor
- Joel GoodmanEditor
- Conrad Buff IVEditor
- Gale Anne HurdProducer
- Van LingProducer
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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Project Hail Mary 202178% alikeBook · Both epic, earnest, contemporary.
Series · Both earnest, epic, classical in form.
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