Contact
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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
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| upc: |
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| title: |
Contact |
| theatricalDate: |
11-07-1997 |
| purchase date: |
07-06-2006 |
| publisher: |
Warner Home Video |
| published: |
30-12-1997 |
| price: |
$14.98 |
| net Rating: |
4 |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG |
| minutes: |
150 |
| last lookup time: |
171438782.046762 |
| genre: |
10-12 Years
Adapted from Books
Family Films
Drama
Horror
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Space Adventure
Aliens |
| fullTitle: |
Contact |
| features: |
Anamorphic
Closed-captioned
Color
Dolby
Widescreen
NTSC
2.35:1 |
| director: |
Robert Zemeckis |
| currentValue: |
$5.21 |
| created: |
171438778.445364 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
0790733226
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