Louise Banks is a linguistics professor (played by Amy Adams).
One morning most of her students were missing from class and the ones
that showed up asked her to turn on the news. Alien spacecrafts had
mysteriously appeared in 12 different places across the globe. Banks is
visited by a colonel in the military (played by Forest Whitaker) who
recruits her to come to Montana where a ship has arrived in the US.
There she works with physicist Ian Donnelly (played by Jeremy Renner) to
try to communicate with the aliens to see if they are here as friends
or foe. They communicate using a markerboard with the two aliens they
have dubbed Abbott and Costello. The situation becomes a race against
the clock when the Chinese government decide to pursue military action
against the ship located on their land instead of working with the
aliens. Banks and Donnelly must find a way to understand the alien
language and communicate with them before war could break out.
I really enjoyed this movie. We saw it in the theater and I checked
it out just to see it again. I highly recommend it. There is a definite
twist in the end.
[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try
Passengers,
Interstellar or
Edge of Tomorrow]
[Based on the novella “The Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, which is available in
traditional print format.]
[
Internet Movie Database entry for this film ] | [ official
Arrival web site ]
Recommended by
Carrie K.
Bennett Martin Public Library
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