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Contact starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Jena Malone, Geoffrey Blake, William Fichtner directed by: Robert Zemeckis  List Price: $14.98 Price: $6.45 You Save: $8.53 (57%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790733227 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790733226 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 30, 1997 Running Time: 150 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1997 Sales Rank: 1959 MPN: 085391504122 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this visionary drama based on Carl Sagan's novel about human kind's first encounter with extraterrestial life directed by another Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis.Running Time: 151 min.System Requirements:Starring: Angela Bassett Jodie Foster John Hurt Rob Lowe Matthew McConaughey David Morse Tom Skerritt and James Woods. Directed By: Robert Zemeckis. Running Time: 150 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 1999 Warner Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 085391504122 Amazon.com essential video: 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 day--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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great story......awful production.One of the outstanding movies of modern times, both good and bad, Contact is a production of the Carl Sagan novel of the same name. What makes it one of the most irritating productions of all time (only Twister surpasses it), is Zemeckis' idea that the major players, James Woods, Angela Bassett, and Tom Skerritt all have to act like nannies to properly convey the script. In one the worst performances of his career, James Woods is downright ridiculous from beginning to end. His ... Read More Rating:  - Unspeakably terrible movieI am shocked and disgusted that this movie has received such a high rating. Hands down, this is the worst movie that I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Rating:  - Could have been so much betterFirst, the very opening of the movie is fantastic - almost worth the discounted purchase price by itself. The special effects are really quite good. The acting ranges from good to poor but, is generally passable. The story development and character interactions are OK if one hasn't read the book. However, if one has read the book there is such a distortion of both characters and their interactions and loss of sophistication and nuance as to be quite ... Read More Rating:  - I Love This Movie!!!I have always been a science buff and a science fiction fan. This movie was wonderful. I think it is not far off to what our reaction would be if we were contacted by others in the galaxy. Jodie Foster was wonderful as Ellie Arraway and the spirit of the book was carried over into the film. The film does take some liberties with characters and what occured in the book but that was only to make it fit into a 2 hour movie. Rating: - Very enjoyable I thought this was a very interesting movie and that it was made believable by the great perormance of Jodi Foster. If another actress had tried to pull this off, it might not have worked. This is not your usual "contact with extraterrestrails" movie and that makes it refreshing too. Also, we get some real science tossed in. Cosmos fans will undoubtedly recognize some of Sagan's lessons scattered here and there. Browse for similar items by category:
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