Contact

1997 • 149 minutes

About this movie

"We are not alone..." Two-time Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster and Hollywood's brightest new star, Matthew McConaughey, shine in this spellbinding drama of a dedicated astronomer's quest to make first Contact. Despite scorn from her colleagues, "Ellie" Arroway devoutly eavesdrops on the universe. And then, one fateful morning, she hears a cryptic signal. As the world's scientists scramble to decode "the message," Ellie must struggle to become Earth's single emissary on a journey beyond theory or experience. Seeking support, she turns top-level government advisor, Palmer Joss . Separated by very different beliefs, they reunite in their passion for knowledge and truth. From Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan's best-seller comes the story of a visionary scientist's unshakable conviction that somewhere in this boundless universe an intelligence yearns for Contact.

Ratings and reviews

This was a good movie. My opinion is it would've been better if quantum entaglement explained the travel. Hey, NASA, aim Webb at Vega. The movie says there's a civilization there.

A Masterpiece. Incredible Sci-Fi Drama that relies on the Science more than the Fiction.

One of my favorite movies - CLASSIC! "I'm ok to go.....ok to go."