Contact
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- Synopsis
- 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....
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- Starring
- Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
- Director(s)
- Robert Zemeckis
- Distributor(s)
- South Side Amusement Co.
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 150 min.
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ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites
Contact is that rare big-budget motion picture that places ideas, characters, and plot above everything else.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites
Contact is superior popular filmmaking, both polished and effective. But despite its success and its serious intentions, it's finally a movie where the storytelling makes more of an impact than the story.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
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."Read the full review
