Rating: PG
Genre:
Science Fiction
Release Date: 12/16/1997
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 150 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity, Watch With Your Teen
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (
Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the seemingly unknowable: working with a group that monitors radio waves from space, Ellie hopes that some day she will receive a coherent message from another world that will prove that there is a world beyond our own. Ellie's hard work is rewarded when her team picks up a signal that does not appear to be of earthly origin. Ellie decodes the message, which turns out to be plans for a space craft, which she takes as an invitation for a meeting with the aliens. Ellie and her fellow researchers soon run into interference from a White House scientific advisor, David Drumlin (
Tom Skerritt), who cuts off their funding and tries to take credit for their achievements. However, Ellie receives moral support from Palmer Joss (
Matthew McConaughey), a spiritual teacher who advises President Clinton and tries to persuade her to accept the existence of a higher power, and financial backing from S.R. Hadden (
John Hurt), a multi-millionaire willing to fund her attempts to contact the source of the message.
Contact was based on a novel by
Carl Sagan, who advised director
Robert Zemeckis during the film's production until his death in 1996.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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An Award-Winning Sci-Fi Collaboration.
Oscar-winning director, Robert Zemeckis brings Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Carl Sagan's final science-fiction novel to life on the big screen with Two-time Academy Award winner, Jodie Foster as a young astrologist, who receives a rather cryptic message from an unknown species in a far distant galaxy sort of an invitation to meet one and other, Matthew McConaughey is a religious scholar with different view points about the whole project--and suddenly they become players on the world stage as the countdown to humanity's greatest journey begins. Also starring James Woods, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett, John Hurt, Rob Lowe, William Fichtner, Jena Malone, Geoffrey Blake, Sami Chester, Thomas Garner, Jake Busey, David Morse, and Steven Ford. Carl Sagan died during production in 1996.
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