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Contact was released on July 11, 1997, and received positive reviews from critics. The film grossed over $171 million worldwide. It won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and several Saturn Awards.
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
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.
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.
Jul 11, 1997 · Original Theatrical Release. July 11, 1997. Genres. Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller. Follow
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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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.”
