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Contact

Is something or someone out there?

This science fiction drama is adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name. Jodie Foster portrays the film's protagonist, Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a driven SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astronomer who finds strong evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact.

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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 days--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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Recommended Age 13 and up
Actors Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, William Fichtner, John Hurt
Director Robert Zemeckis
Running Time 151 minutes
Studio Warner Home Video
Release Date Sep 8, 2009
Language English