The Arrival is a 1996 science fiction film directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen, and co-starring Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, and Teri Polo. Sheen stars as radio astronomer Zane Zaminski who discovers evidence of intelligent alien life and quickly gets thrown into the middle of a conspiracy that turns his life upside down. A sequel, Arrival II: The Second Arrival was released on November 6, 1998. Zane Zaminski , a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light years from Earth. Zane reports this to his... supervisor, Phil Gordian 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 televsion 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. Zane relocates the signal, but it is drowned out by a terrestrial signal from a Mexican radio station.
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| Release date: | May 31, 1996 |
| Directed by: | David Twohy |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Thomas G. Smith, Jim Steele |
| Editor: | Martin Hunter |
| Music by: | Arthur Kempel |
| Cinematography: | Hiro Narita |
| Screenplay by: | David Twohy |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction |