Contact Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt
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- DVD Release Date: 09/08/2009
- Original Release: 1997
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- Sales Rank: 8,042
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Closed Caption; Theatrical trailers; Feature-length commentaries on alternate audio tracks; Jodie Foster; Robert Zemeckis and Steve Starkey; Ken Ralston and Stephen Rosenbaum; Computer animated concepts and tests; Special effects designs
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Disc #1 -- Contact
1. Universal Eye View [3:51]
2. Life Out There? [3:36]
3. Listen / Green Men [3:50]
4. Palmer Joss [2:32]
5. Science / The Cloth [2:15]
6. Close for a Moment [4:50]
7. God's Will? [4:20]
8. Pulling the Plug [3:23]
9. Tiniest Vision [2:28]
10. 3 Months Notice [2:35]
11. A Signal [10:01]
12. Not Person / Person [3:22]
13. Message in German [2:22]
14. President Remarks [2:17]
15. Spokesman Follows [3:35]
16. Feeding Frenzy [3:18]
17. Late Rendezvous [1:51]
18. Ellie in Nutshell [3:12]
19. Decoding Message [7:00]
20. Face in the Crowd [1:41]
21. Requiring Proof [2:27]
22. Who Gets to Go? [2:30]
23. The Candidates [2:10]
24. Worth a Human Life [3:11]
25. Question of Belief [5:22]
26. Day of the Test [5:43]
27. Security Breach [2:01]
28. Tragedy [2:45]
29. "Wanna Take Ride?" [2:54]
30. Precautions [3:45]
31. Passenger Aboard [4:58]
32. Okay to Go [3:59]
33. Launch [4:42]
34. Indescribable [2:19]
35. Figures on a Beach [3:29]
36. Small Moves [2:58]
37. Unexplainable [1:44]
38. Hadden Hoax? [3:31]
39. Not Alone [2:51]
40. Same Goal [2:11]
41. Interesting Fact [:47]
42. Precious Grains [2:36]
Editorial Reviews
The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the seemingly unknowable: working with a group that monitors radio waves from space, Ellie hopes that some day she will receive a coherent message from another world that will prove that there is a world beyond our own. Ellie's hard work is rewarded when her team picks up a signal that does not appear to be of earthly origin. Ellie decodes the message, which turns out to be plans for a space craft, which she takes as an invitation for a meeting with the aliens. Ellie and her fellow researchers soon run into interference from a White House scientific advisor, David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), who cuts off their funding and tries to take credit for their achievements. However, Ellie receives moral support from Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a spiritual teacher who advises President Clinton and tries to persuade her to accept the existence of a higher power, and financial backing from S.R. Hadden (John Hurt), a multi-millionaire willing to fund her attempts to contact the source of the message. Contact was based on a novel by Carl Sagan, who advised director Robert Zemeckis during the film's production until his death in 1996. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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