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Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film.
Contact: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Jena Malone, David Morse, Jodie Foster, Geoffrey Blake. Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
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- Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Robert Zemeckis
- 1997-07-11
May 3, 2024 · Contact is a 1997 film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The movie was based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan . It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of life sending a message from outer space.
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) has long been interested in contact with faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway (David Morse), who dies when she was nine-years-old, leaving her an orphan.
Dec 21, 2011 · “Contact” was directed by Robert Zemeckis, whose work often employs daring technical methods. Remember his mixture of animation and live action in the pre-CGI days of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (1988). Look at the way he embedded Forrest Gump (1994) amid real people.
Jul 11, 1997 · Sagan’s novel Contact provides the inspiration for Robert Zemeckis’ new film, which tells the smartest and most absorbing story about extraterrestrial intelligence since “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
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.
