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Contact [Blu-ray]
starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
directed by: Robert Zemeckis

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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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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

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929064144
Feature: 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
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledDanishSubtitledDutchSubtitledFinnishSubtitledGermanSubtitledItalianSubtitledNorwegianSubtitledPortugueseSubtitledSwedishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 1000092338
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: October 06, 2009
Running Time: 149 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1997

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Contact (Snap Case)

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 ... Read More

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