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"Contact" is a 1997 science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis about humanity's first encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence. The film explores themes of faith, scientific discovery, and our place in the universe as a scientist works to make contact with an alien civilization.
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7.4A 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.
Cast
- Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway
- Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss
- James Woods as Michael Kitz
- John Hurt as S. R. Hadden
- Tom Skerritt as David Drumlin
- William Fichtner as Kent
Themes
- based on novel or book
- nasa
- extraterrestrial technology
- new mexico
- prime number
- radio wave
- wormhole
- fanatic
- spirituality
- religion
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 144
- FilmAffinity ID
- 815526
- Official website
- www.warnerbros.com/movies/contact
- Image
- Contact uniforms.jpg
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- publication date
- 1997-10-09
- Commons category
- Contact (1997 American film)
- title
- Contact
- capital cost
- 90000000
- review score
- 69%
- box office
- 100920329
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Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey, and David Morse co-star. It features the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Mir space station, and the Space Coast surrounding Cape Canaveral.
Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan, began working on Contact in 1979. They wrote a film treatment and set up the project at Warner Bros. with Peter Guber and Lynda Obst as producers. When development stalled, Sagan published Contact as a novel in 1985, and the film reentered development in 1989. Roland Joffé and George Miller planned to direct, but Joffé dropped out in 1993, and Warner Bros. fired Miller in 1995. With Zemeckis as director, filming ran from September 1996 to February 1997, while Sony Pictures Imageworks, Weta, Ltd. and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) handled the visual and special effects. Sagan died before the film was completed.