| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Jena Malone |
Young Ellie
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| David Morse |
Ted Arroway
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| Jodie Foster |
Eleanor Ann Arroway
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| Geoffrey Blake |
Fisher
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| William Fichtner |
Kent Clark
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| Sami Chester |
Vernon
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| Timothy McNeil |
Davio
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| Laura Elena Surillo |
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| Matthew McConaughey |
Palmer Joss
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| Tom Skerritt |
David Drumlin
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| Thomas Garner |
Ian Broderick
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Science Fiction; Romance; Mystery |
| Director |
Robert Zemeckis |
| Producer |
Robert Zemeckis; Steve Starkey |
| Writer |
James V. Hart; Carl Sagan |
| Studio |
Warner Bros. |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
150 |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| 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, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson |
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| Edition Details |
| Edition |
Special Edition |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
2.35:1 |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| Barcode |
085391504122 |
| Release Date |
12/30/1997 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
English Dolby Digital 5.1
French Dolby Digital 2.0 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Commentary Making Of... Movie Trailer Production Notes Scene Access Computer Animation Concepts, Special Effects Designs |
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