Contact

About Contact

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Robert Zemeckis's Contact is a 1997 mystery science fiction film. It runs 150 minutes and was released in July 1997.

Its themes are scientist, defiant, NASA, and new mexico. The film began as a novel.

Jodie Foster appears as Ellie Arroway, Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss, James Woods as Michael Kitz, and John Hurt as S. R. Hadden. The screenplay is by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg.

Interstellar, Arrival, and There Will Be Blood make useful companions to Contact, all filed under wormhole. TMDB voters put it at 7.5 out of 10 across 5,284 votes and it carries a PG rating.