Contact
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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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- ርልዪረFebruary 2, 2025📡 Contact is a beautiful, thoughtful movie. So intelligently scripted, directed and acted. Carl Sagan’s novel is thought provoking, questioning the meaning of life in such a way that, though not providing answers, does not really let you down either. Whilst the movie loses the wonderful concept of Ellie finding an intelligent message in her calculation of Pi, it still leaves you with a feeling of amazement at the universe, and the nature of being. The conflict of faith and science is intelligently and fairly dealt with in a way which leaves both sides of the argument room to explore. Ellie’s realisation which questions her certainty that “faith” is unscientific and hence invalid, is shattering. This really is a greatly underrated movie which would appeal to many people who might not normally watch science fiction. Jodie Foster’s performance is amazing. I cannot believe that she was overlooked for any Oscar mention for this. It is a tour de force. She is well balanced by Matthew McConaughey as an edgy, forward thinking priest.
- turbob24June 29, 2026A little sappy, but very enjoyable and intelligent window into the world of Carl Sagan, via the lens of Bob Zemeckis. If only it happened for real.... They're right, would be an awful waste of space...
- cameron.colletJune 28, 2026Great older philosophical sci-fi film.
- Alfredo RepettoJune 16, 2026Great movie. Well developed, nice pace, very well-documented for the time it was made. The fact that Carl Sagan was involved in this, says a lot!
- Adel José Kassar BarriosMay 25, 2025The bets movie
- Richard DavisMay 31, 2026Popcorn fun. Broadly ahead of it's time and John Hurt steals the show...
- PaxProtocolMay 21, 2026Probably my favorite movie of all time
- angeltreadMarch 24, 2026Just a lot of big and challenging ideas packaged in a digestable amount. Its heady while always being understandable. IMO. The John Hurt stuff was so bombastic and hammy, it felt like it was from a different movie. Didn't ruin anything for me though.
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Contact was released on July 11, 1997.
Contact was directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Contact has a runtime of 2h 30m.
Contact was produced by Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis.
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.
The key characters in Contact are Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster), Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), Michael Kitz (James Woods).
Contact is rated PG.
Contact is a Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery film.
Contact has an audience rating of 7.9 out of 10.
Contact had a budget of $90M.
Contact has made $171.1M at the box office.