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Genre | Drama |
Format | Dolby, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Anamorphic, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Special Edition, Color |
Contributor | Tucker Smallwood, Neil Armstrong, Anthony Hamilton, Steven Ford, Behrooz Afrakhan, Hiroshi Tom Tanaka, Geoffrey Blake, Pamela Wilsey, Joseph McCarthy (II), Gerry Griffin, Ian Whitcomb (II), Kathleen Kennedy (II), Christopher Boyer, Thomas Garner, Henry Strozier, Lo Ming, Conroy Chino, David Morse, Linden Soles, Marc Macaulay, Saemi Nakamura, Alice Kushida, Max Martini, Donna J. Kelley, Bill Clinton, Sunshine Logroño, Jill Dougherty, Rob Lowe, J.A. Preston, Jennifer Balgobin, Russell Sanderlin Sr., Jim Hild, Alex Veadov, Mak Takano, Mark Bailey, Todd Patrick Breaugh, Larry King, Bernard Shaw, Robin Gammell, Carl Gilliard, Valorie Armstrong, Candice Cook, Mark Thomason, Dan Gifford, Janie Peterson, Kristoffer Ryan Winters, Vance Valencia, Brian Alston, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Michael Albala, Rebecca T. Beucler, John Holliman, Jodie Foster, Aixa Clemente, Leo Lee, Yuji Okumoto, Adolf Hitler, William B. Kaplan, Ann Druyan, Ned Netterville, Diego Montoya, Bobbie Battista, Jeff Johnson, Matt Bennett (III), Jake Busey, Catherine Dao, Geraldo Rivera, Walter Winchell, Natalie Allen, Timothy McNeil, William Jordan, Frank Silva (III), Seiji Okamura, Delaney Williams, Alexander Zemeckis, Robert D. Novak, Sami Chester, Maria Celeste Arraras, Jena Malone, Richard Nixon, Pamela Fischer, Geraldine A. Ferraro, David St. James, Matthew McConaughey, Dee Dee Myers, Claire Shipman, James Woods, Michael Chaban, Robert Zemeckis, José Rey, Marisa Petroro, William Fichtner, Frank Principe, Paul L. Nolan, Neal Matarazzo, Philippe Bergeron, Robert Aguilar Jr., Haynes Brooke, Jonathan Adler (II), Russell Darling, Bryant Gumbel, Bill Thomas, Leon Harris (III), Laura Elena Surillo, Martin Luther King, Douglas MacArthur, Tabitha Soren, Jay Leno, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tom Skerritt, Rob Elk, Richardson Morse, Derrick Damions See more |
Language | English, French |
Runtime | 2 hours and 30 minutes |
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Product Description
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After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
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The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 1.6 ounces
- Director : Robert Zemeckis
- Media Format : Dolby, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Anamorphic, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Special Edition, Color
- Run time : 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Release date : December 30, 1997
- Actors : Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Jena Malone, Geoffrey Blake, William Fichtner
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : French (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Warner Home Video
- ASIN : 0790733226
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,230 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #441 in Science Fiction DVDs
- #3,416 in Drama DVDs
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Carl Sagan played a pivotal role in the production and accuracy of this film but sadly passed before it was finished. Had he lived to champion it for what it is, a serious, thought-provoking, conceptual piece of sci-fi, those factions of the human race exposed by it might well have been forced to take a good hard look at themselves and realise, as he firmly believed, that the chances of us being unique in the universe, is probably naive.
On a side note, the CGI in this movie was very early, and therefore pretty bad on a modern TV. That made it even harder to enjoy. The space CGI looked a bit better though, and I would have liked to have seen it upscaled.
All of us back then came out of the movie moved by the questions it posed to an attentive viewer who is willing to truly dive into a wonderfully made story that is willing to break the mold of most Hollywood movies back then and today.
If you like movies that have good characters, and talk about deep subjects in-between the lines, and openly, this movie will be one for you.
The BlueRay version is great and allows to enjoy the movie in new pristine picture quality.