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Contact

Movie
1997
2h 30m
PG
English
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
User Score: 
7.6
Critic Score: 
65
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A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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Contact

PG
Movie
1997
2h 30m
English
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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Jodie Foster
Ellie Arroway
James Woods
Michael Kitz
John Hurt
S. R. Hadden
Tom Skerritt
David Drumlin
David Morse
Ted Arroway
Angela Bassett
Rachel Constantine
Rob Lowe
Richard Rank
Tucker Smallwood
Mission Director
Jena Malone
Young Ellie
Laura Elena Surillo
Cantina Woman
Larry King
Larry King
Thomas Garner
Ian Broderick
Conroy Chino
KOB-TV Reporter
Dan Gifford
Jeremy Roth
Vance Valencia
Senator Valencia
Donna Kelley
Donna Kelley
Leon Harris
Leon Harris
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Written By: Michael Goldenberg (Screenplay), Ann Druyan (Story), + 3 more

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MooX says...
9 years ago
One of the best science fiction movie, the story is great and full of possible science facts, the actors are really convincing, the direction is perfect. If you are a science fiction lover, this movie is a must.
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duanepatrick says...
10 years ago
A great movie, from that opening pull out shot, the impossible mirror shot (Zemekis really doesn't get the credit he deserves sometimes) the pace is spot on, you don't feel its a 2 and half hour long film, great story, and as others have said because it is based on science fact, totally believable......watched this week in preparation for Interstellar
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alixaxel says...
11 years ago
I was 10 when I went to the cinema watch this movie for the first time, and to this day it still is the deepest movie I've ever seen. I had the book at my home but I lost it while moving out and unfortunately never got to read it (yet). The plot is awesome and it's based on true science - the factorization into primes, for instance, that the aliens use to communicate with us, was actually tried out (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message) and you can learn more about it in a fascinating paper called "A Tale of Two Sieves" by mathematician Carl Pomerance: "The cardinality of 1679 was chosen because it is a semiprime (the product of two prime numbers), to be arranged rectangularly as 73 rows by 23 columns". @BenFranklin: Thanks for the suggestion, regarding the DNA - I saw a similar theory in Through the Wormhole I think (or was it NOVA ScienceNOW?) S02E09 or S03E02 but I Googled a bit and I think they haven't found an intelligent slope in our DNA plotting, the frequency seems to be near-randomic.
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nuna88 says...
2 years ago
Many of the old movies did not get old in a good way. "Contact" is different. "Contact" grows old with dignity. Excellent, universal and accurate still after 25 years from it's premiere.
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JPRetana
one year ago
Early on in Contact a character is introduced who goes by the name “Kent Clark,” and for the remainder of the film I simply could not get over the fact that no one ever even mentions that he is named after Bizarro’s alter ego.

My theory is that this is a figurative wink to the audience, let More
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JPV852
2 years ago
Random viewing but decided to finally watch after its been in my to-do bin for a while now. It didn't strike an emotional cord that I thought it would but Jodie Foster was quite good as were a respectable supporting cast. Never quite bought into the relationship between Foster and McConaughey though More
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talisencrw
6 years ago
I would readily admit this is one of my favourite science fiction films from the 90's. It's intelligent, well-acted and directed, and the special effects it has HELPS the story rather than IMPEDES it. Though she hasn't done much lately, either in the director's chair or acting, Jodie Foster is one o More
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