Contact (1997)

19971h 17mdir. Robert ZemeckisUnited Statesscience fiction filmdrama film

Note: this print runs 77 minutes against a recorded 144 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, David Morse

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

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.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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