Contact [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a South Side Amusement Company production, a Robert Zmeckis film ; screenplay by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg ; produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steve Starkey ; directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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FilmPublisher number: 1000108962 | Warner Home Video1000113432 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2009.Edition: Special ed.; WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1419885197
- 9781419885198
- Contact (Motion picture). French & English.
- Director of photography, Don Burgess ; production design, Ed Verreaux ; editor, Arthur Schmidt ; music, Alan Silvestri.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the seemingly unknowable: working with a group that monitors radio waves from space, Ellie hopes that some day she will receive a coherent message from another world that will prove that there is a world beyond our own. Ellie's hard work is rewarded when her team picks up a signal that does not appear to be of earthly origin. Ellie decodes the message, which turns out to be plans for a space craft, which she takes as an invitation for a meeting with the aliens. Ellie and her fellow researchers soon run into interference from a White House scientific advisor, David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), who cuts off their funding and tries to take credit for their achievements. However, Ellie receives moral support from Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a spiritual teacher who advises President Clinton and tries to persuade her to accept the existence of a higher power, and financial backing from S.R. Hadden (John Hurt), a multi-millionaire willing to fund her attempts to contact the source of the message. Contact was based on a novel by Carl Sagan, who advised director Robert Zemeckis during the film's production until his death in 1996. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the story by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Special features includes 3 feature-length commentaries on alternate audio tracks: Jodie Foster/Robert Zmeckis and Steve Starkey/Ken Ralston and Stephen Rosenbaum, computer animation concepts and tests, special effects designs, cast and crew bios, from novel to screen, creating a fantastic event, the message, construction the pod, alien encounters.
Director of photography, Don Burgess ; production design, Ed Verreaux ; editor, Arthur Schmidt ; music, Alan Silvestri.
Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett.
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
MPAA rating: Rated PG; for some intense action, mild language and a scene of sensuality.
DVD, widescreen presentation; NTSC region 1; dual layer; Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby surround stereo.
For private home use only.
In English or French with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.