Contact(1997)

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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.
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 …
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In Theaters

  • July 11, 1997

MPAA Rating

PG (for action / language / sensuality)

Genres

Adaptation, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Romance, Technology, Drama

Run Time

2 hours 22 minutes

Distributors

Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution

Box Office

$100,853,832

Production Status

Released

Filming Locations

  • Washington, DC, USA
  • Puerto Rico
  • Los Angeles, California, USA
  • New Mexico, USA
  • Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA

Produced In

United States

Director

CAST

Jodie Foster

Dr Eleanor 'Ellie' Arroway

Matthew McConaughey

Palmer Joss

Tom Skerritt

Dr David Drumlin

Angela Bassett

Rachel Constantine

John Hurt

S R Hadden

David Morse

Theodore 'Ted' Arroway
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