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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: Jul 11, 1997
Running Time: 142 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
She's known it since she was a young girl, when she would magically connect with distant voices on her father's shortwave radio. She's known it since college, when she chose the search for intelligent extraterrestrial messages as her discipline. She's known it since she bargained for just hours a week of satellite time to sweep the heavens for evidence. And she knows it every time she stares at the countless stars dappling the infinite night sky... Something is out there.
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Dr Eleanor 'Ellie' Arroway
Palmer Joss
Dr David Drumlin
Rachel Constantine
S R Hadden
Theodore 'Ted' Arroway
Richard Rank
Kent
Michael Kitz
Fisher
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reviews
December 8, 2000
Beware all ye who enter here in search of little green men. Contact, based on the 1985 best-selling first novel by scientist Carl Sagan, doesn't deliver any aliens. As directed by Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis (the sappy Forrest Gump) from a script by Michael Goldenberg (the way-sappier Bed of Roses), Contact aims to be a film of ideas but serves too many of them half-baked.
Luckily, Jodie Foster's performance is a dazzler that dodges the plot's black holes. She plays Ellie Arroway, a rebel… 
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