Contact

If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.

1997Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
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Overview

Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

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Director Robert Zemeckis
Runtime 2 h 30 min
Release Date 11 July 1997
Actors
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, David Morse, Angela Bassett, Geoffrey Blake, Max Martini, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey, Jena Malone, Tucker Smallwood, Sami Chester, Henry Strozier, Haynes Brooke, Timothy McNeil, Laura Elena Surillo, Michael Chaban, Larry King, Thomas Garner, Conroy Chino, Dan Gifford, Vance Valencia, Donna Kelley, Leon Harris, Claire Shipman, Behrooz Afrakhan, Saemi Nakamura, Maria Celeste Arraras, Tabitha Soren, Geraldo Rivera, Ian Whitcomb, Jay Leno, Michael Albala, Ned Netterville, Leo Lee, William Jordan, David St. James, Steven Ford, Alexander Zemeckis, Janie Peterson, Philippe Bergeron, Jennifer Balgobin, Anthony Hamilton, Rebecca T. Beucler, Marc Macaulay, Jeffery Thomas Johnson, Yuji Okumoto, Gerry Griffin, Brian Alston, Rob Elk, Mark Thomason, José Rey, Todd Patrick Breaugh, Alex Veadov, Alice Kushida, Robin Gammell, Richardson Morse, Seiji Okamura, Mak Takano, Hiroshi Tom Tanaka, Catherine Dao, Kristoffer Ryan Winters, Valorie Armstrong, Jim Hild, William L. Thomas, Diego Montoya, Jonathan Adler, Robert Aguilar Jr., Mark Bailey, Matt Bennett, Tony Boldi, Christopher Boyer, Mark Byrne, Candice T. Cain, Aixa Clemente, Derrick Damions, Elaina Erika Davis, Joey Dente, Michael Egan, Jeff Elmore, Carl Gilliard, William B. Kaplan, Ming Lo, Sunshine Logroño, Denise Loveday, Neal Matarazzo, Cassidy McMillan, Molly Mueller, Paul L. Nolan, Marisa Petroro, Errica Poindexter, J.A. Preston, Frank Principe, Leo Rogstad, Russell Sanderlin Sr., Frank Silva, John A. Taylor, Todd Thompson, Cenk Uygur, Holly Cross Vagley, Eric Alan Wendell, Delaney Williams

A clever and well executed sci-fi story. There is a great balance between science and human angle, which reminds me of Arrival in a way.

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