The Arrival (film)

The Arrival is a 1996 science fiction film directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen, and costarring Lindsay Crouse, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, and Richard Schiff. Sheen stars as radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky who discovers evidence of intelligent alien life and quickly gets thrown into the middle of a conspiracy that turns his life upside down.

Zane Zaminsky Charlie Sheen, a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a starlight years from Earth. Zane reports this to his supervisor, Phil Gordian Ron Silver at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but Phil dismisses the claims. Zane soon finds that he has been fired because of supposed budget cuts, and blacklisted, preventing him from working at other telescopes. Taking a job as a television satellite installer, he creates his own telescope array using his customers dishes in the neighborhood, operating it secretly from his attic with help of his young next door neighbor, Kiki Tony T. Johnson.Zane again locates the radio signal, but it is drowned out by a terrestrial signal from a Mexican radio station. Zane attempts to tell his former coworker, Calvin Richard Schiff, but finds he has just died suspiciously from carbon monoxide poisoning. Zane travels to the fictional town of San Marsol in Mexico and finds that the local radio station, from which the signal apparently originated, was burnt to the ground. Searching the area around town, he comes across a new power plant. There, he meets Ilana Green, and tries to help protect her atmospheric analysis equipment from the plants overzealous security forces. While in custody at the plant, Ilana explains that the Earths temperature has recently risen several degrees, melting the polar ice. She is investigating the power plant, one of several recently built, that appears to be the cause of this increase. The two are released, but without Ilanas equipment. Surprisingly, Zane realizes one of the guards could pass as the identical twin of his former boss, Phil. As Zane and Ilana regroup, Phil instructs some agents, posing as gardeners, to release an alien device in Zanes attic that creates a miniature black hole, consuming all of Zanes equipment. Zane leaves Ilana to again investigate the power plant and she is soon killed by a scorpion planted in her room. ........

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