Based on Crichton's 1987 novel, Sphere follows a group of scientists — Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman), Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson), Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone) and Ted Fielding (Liev Schrieber) ...

Since the 1980s Samuel L. Jackson has been providing some of ... but it's one of the more underrated comedies of the '90s and in it Jackson plays a boxing promoter loosely based on Don King.