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| Jodie Foster |
Ellie Arroway
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| Matthew McConaughey |
Palmer Joss
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| Movie Details |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG |
| Running Time |
153 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| 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 |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
394 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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