Arrival [Blu-ray] / Paramount Pictures presents ; in association with FilmNation Entertainment and Lava Bear Films ; a 21 Laps Entertainment production ; a Denis Villeneuve film ; produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, David Linde ; screenplay by Eric Heisserer ; directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. Based on the story "Story of your life" by Ted Chiang. Originally released as a motion picture in 2016. Special features: Xenolinguistics, understanding Arrival; acoustic signatures; eternal recurrence; nonlinear thinking; principles of time, memory, and language.
Summary:
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
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