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   • 7.5/10 7.5/10 IMDb
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   Critics consensus Contact elucidates stirring scientific concepts and theological inquiry at the expense of satisfying storytelling, making for a brainy blockbuster that engages with its ideas, if not its characters. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

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   Dec 21, 2011 · A key element of the film involves Congressional hearings to determine who should be the astronaut aboard the ship. Although an international team of candidates has been selected, the cost of the ship has mostly been paid by the U. S., and for political reasons the astronaut will be American.

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   Is contact based on a true story?

   • Brilliant movie. Contact is based on the breathtaking novel written by the late Carl Sagan. It stars Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway, a girl obsessed by what's out there. She intercepts an alien message, after which a mission is set up to go and meet the extra-terrestrials. But make no mistake, this is no Star Trek.

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   Who directed contact?

   • "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.

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   Is contact a good movie?

   • Another problematical character is Joseph ( Jake Busey ), who is way over the top as an evangelist, and curiously immune to routine security procedures. The strength of "Contact" is in the way it engages in issues that are relevant today, and still only rarely discussed in the movies.

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   What is a contact movie?

   • (Warner Bros.) Contact is that rare big-budget motion picture that places ideas, characters, and plot above everything else. Contact delivers on more than a pure visual level, reiterating the idea that greatest progress is made taking "small steps" towards enlightenment.

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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."

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   68% Tomatometer 68 Reviews 78% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings In this Zemeckis-directed adaptation of the Carl Sagan novel, Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) races to interpret a possible message...

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   • Director: Robert Zemeckis

   • Content Rating: PG
   • Actors: Jodie Foster

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   This duality of life and true fulfilment which arises from the reconcilement of contrary beliefs is surely a theme of the film: evinced through the conflict created by science vs. religion, fact vs. faith, vision vs. reality. Carl Sagan's novel was also a fulfilling pleasure to read.

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   Jul 11, 2017 · On July 11, 1997, Robert Zemeckis unveiled his sci-fi adaptation of Carl Sagan’s Contact, starring Jodie Foster. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below.

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   Despite its lineage and some impressive special effects, Contact is a disappointingly earthbound production, weighed down by the ballast of talking-heads dramaturgy and bloated storytelling. Full...

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   Jul 11, 1997 · Jodie Foster stars as headstrong visionary astronomer Ellie Arroway in Contact, a drama of discovery, based on the best-selling 1985 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and noted astronomer Carl Sagan.