Contact
Movie (1997)
Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery
In Collection
#541
0*
DivX
153 mins
IMDB

Matthew McConaughey Palmer Joss
Jodie Foster Eleanor Ann Arroway
Sami Chester Vernon
William Fichtner Kent Clark
Geoffrey Blake Fisher
Jena Malone Young Ellie
Timothy McNeil Davio
David Morse Ted Arroway
Tom Skerritt David Drumlin
Thomas Garner Ian Broderick
Laura Elena Surillo Cantina Woman
Dan Gifford Jeremy Roth
Angela Bassett Rachel Constantine
John Hurt S.R. Hadden
James Woods Michael Kitz

Director Robert Zemeckis
Producer Robert Zemeckis
Steve Starkey
Writer James V. Hart
Michael Goldenberg
Musician Alan Silvestri

What will it be like the first time that the human race makes 'Contact' with extraterrestrial existence? This is the question, in the movie based on Carl Sagan's novel, when a mysterious signal is received at a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) research project by Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) in Arecibo, Argentina. While she is their studying this message and attempting to solve the riddle that is in the message she meets Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a theology student, and begins a relationship with him that soon goes bad. After the message has been deciphered and determined to contain instructions on building a space travel device, all of the human race becomes involved in what happens next. There is a great deal of interest as to what will become of the human race if we make contact with extraterrestrials, and many people are taken under consideration to man the first mission. Ellie is in the running but many, like her former boyfriend Palmer Joss, are against Ellie as the choice because of her lack of belief. Ellie only gets the opportunity when the original machine is destroyed and a second one built by a reclusive billionaire is found and she is asked to man the mission. After the mission no one believes Ellie's account of what happened, but Ellie knows that she has made 'Contact'.

Edition Details
Country USA
Language English
Region Region 1
No. of Disks/Tapes 1