Contact [Blu-ray] | ![Contact [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d566aJRSL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  453 reviews
Sales Rank: 4013
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 149 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 1000092338
UPC: 883929064144
EAN: 0883929064144
ASIN: B001AQT0RC
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
Release Date: October 6, 2009
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| • | 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. Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: PG Age: 883929064144 UPC: 883929064144 Manufacturer No: 1000092338 |
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/06/2009 Run time: 153 minutes Rating: Pg
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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 days--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
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 Contact (Snap Case) January 22, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Dr. Eleanor Arroway has spent her life searching for truth in the study of radio astronomy. Palmer Joss has spent his searching for truth through faith in God. When Ellie discovers a stunning message from an extraterrestrial intelligence, they and everyone on Earth will be forced to challenge their own assumptions. In the inevitable first contact, will humankind be able to find a compromise between science and belief. Contact has something to say to everyone, and has real meaning that cannot help but whisk viewers and readers alike to some thrilling place. I have watched this movie a number of times and still find it a joy to watch.
So if it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space January 16, 2010
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster), appropriate last name, is a scientist seeking the fringes of space to find if we are alone. Mean time she has to overcome terrestrial impediments as Dr. David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt) a limelight-steeling pragmatist, and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) the religious antagonist. Supported by the mysterious multi-billionaire S.R. Hadden (John Hurt), will Ellie get her wish or is she a victim of Occam's razor.
Intriguing story based on a book by Carl Sagan; however, I never read the book to compare. The supposedly two-sided story that becomes two versions of the same argument is rather hokey and one-dimensional.
Occam's (or Ockham's) razor is a principle attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Ockham was the village in the English county of Surrey where he was born.
The principle states "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily."
I have followed the film from the movies to Blu-ray and will probably watch it again when the re-master for 3D or whatever comes next. However, the basic acting has not changed with any technical innovation.
On the positive side, the Blu-ray edition is packed with DVD extras that include several commentaries, trailers and much more. After the commentaries, SETI yourself down and re-watch the movie.
Contact by Carl Sagan
Contact December 20, 2009
Kaley F. Iaconis (GA, USA)
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I recommend this movie to everyone! Great acting and sequence of events. Has a way of pulling you right in!
Amazing how sharp November 28, 2009
R. Graham (Texas, Sparkling City by the Bay)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We love this movie! Decided to purchase the new BluRay release since our old DVD was somehow damaged while moving. Really impressed at how sharp the images are. Great conversion to blu ray. If you love Contact, you'll love this new edition.
An instant classic November 24, 2009
J. Ortiz Rivera
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1997 gave us two of the best movies of the decade...Titanic, and Contact. From the opening shot to the end credits, Contact is a combination of great acting, (led by the always amazing Jodie Foster), great story and amazing directing by Robert Zemeckis. Entertaining and inspiring. A classic.
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