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- Jodie Foster
- Matthew McConaughey
- James Woods
- John Hurt
- Tom Skerritt
- Angela Bassett
Contact
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on Carl Sagan's 1985 novel. Jodie Foster stars as Dr. Eleanor Arroway, known as Ellie, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life. The aliens transmit instructions for building a Machine that would carry a human envoy to them, but the road to first contact is blocked by many problems, including doubts about the aliens' intentions, and Ellie has to face the question of science and faith. Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt and Angela Bassett co-star. The film features the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Mir space station and the Space Coast around Cape Canaveral. Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan, began working on Contact in 1979 as a film treatment; when development stalled, Sagan published the story as a novel. Roland Joffé and George Miller were each attached to direct before Zemeckis took over, and filming ran from September 1996 to February 1997, with Sony Pictures Imageworks, Weta and Industrial Light & Magic handling the effects. Released on 11 July 1997, Contact received positive reviews and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and two Saturn Awards.
- Director
- Robert Zemeckis
- Country
- USA
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