Contact | 
| Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew Mcconaughey, Jena Malone, Geoffrey Blake, William Fichtner
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  433 reviews
Sales Rank: 1629
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 153 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.7 x 0.5
MPN: WARD15041D
ISBN: 0790733226
UPC: 085391504122
EAN: 9780790733227
ASIN: 0790733226
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1997
Release Date: December 30, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
Product Description
Ellie Arroway receives a radio message from the distant star Vega from an unknown extraterrestrial source. Contained within the message are blueprints for a machine for intergalactic travel capable of transporting its passenger to deep space.
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Please WARNER dont play this game... June 18, 2009
Mark C. (Seattle, WA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
1. I wont buy a BR player until my DVD player breaks down. and/or
2. when there are an impressive number of titles (including CATALOG) available
Pulling the "if you want it-ya gotta buy BR" game is getting old FAST
as far as I an tell we are left with the 1997 release on DVD-with the anachronistic snapper box
 i couldnt find it anywhere else March 24, 2009
Nikki (California)
i couldn't find it anywhere else, so i ordered it.
good movie. in good condition when it got to me.
 After reading the book, this movies sort of disappointing March 24, 2009
Jose R. Gomez (Southern Cali)
I think they definately should have stuck more closely to the source material. Ellie developing a sexual relationship with Palmer was really corny. I saw this movie once years ago, years before reading the book and I liked it alot then. But I just read the book a couple weeks ago, so I went back and bought this movie and realized how much they actually changed... for the worse.
The main thing that troubles me with this film is the theological aspects. I'm an atheist (I wasn't when I first watched the movie years ago, so I didn't catch all the religious overtones at first) and I felt kind of slighted at the treatment of the source material. The way they made Ellie seem like a bad person for being an atheist. Granted, in the real world that is likely how it would've played out, but I can't help but feel this movie had more of a pro-religion agenda.
The worst part of the film was definately the ending... If they had followed the book directly, the ending would've been much more dynamic. They also definately should've kept S.R. Hadden's ending. It was so cool, but instead in the book we just see S.R. Hadden's dead body being wrapped up. The book's ending was definately ten times more satisfying than the movie version's. All in all, I'd recommend this to others, but warning to those who have read the novel and loved it, you will be disappointed in this film, at least slightly.
One of my most favorites March 17, 2009
Scott Tran (Houston, Tx USA)
This movie is one of my most favorite movies of all time on many different levels. Enough said.
The Truth January 19, 2009
R. Carney
Great movie. The cast is outstanding. Gets you to think about how science and religion may not be at opposing ends.
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