The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie... Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest)reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contactdeserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio film making on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson [show more]
This is the thinking man`s sci-fi of all time! What a trip!
It probes our minds to think further than our own small personal worlds in which we live everyday, to question is there life outside our own? It looks at the mind of the politic world and at times its quirky, odd cults to the deeper inner craving of man to contact and meet God and find a peace and a purpose for being here. This film certainly leaves you thinking and pondering far beyond the finale of the film...... to I hope personally finding the One and only Great Creator, God himself. Enjoy
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. The exciting adventure of the day we make contact with life beyond Earth comes to the screen with a profound sense of wonder and a dazzling visual sweep that extends to the outer reaches of space and the imagination. Jodie Foster is astronomer Ellie Arroway, a woman of science. Matthew McConaughey is religious scholar Palmer Joss, a man of faith. They're opposite ends of a spectrum - and sudden players on the world stage as the countdown to humanity's greatest journey begins. Powerfully, thrillingly and emotionally, 'Contact' connects. Actors Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, David Morse, William Fichtner, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey, Timothy McNeil & Jena Malone Director Robert Zemeckis Certificate PG Year 1997 Screen Widescreen 2.35:1 Languages English Additional Languages French ; Italian ; Portuguese ; Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; French ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Spanish (Castillian) ; Spanish (Latin America) ; Swedish ; German for the hearing impaired ; Italian for the hearing impaired
After the death of her father, Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) devotes her life to science. Convinced of the existence of extra-terrestrial life, she uses satellites to sweep the stars for evidence. When she receives the transmission of what seems to be a blueprint from another species for the construction of a spacecraft, she has to fight for the right to lead the ship's maiden flight to meet the alien life forms. She finds herself working with her former lover, ex-priest Palmer Joss (Michael McConaughey), now a governmental advisor.
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