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by Randy Turgeon
Summary Eight year old Ellie Arroway (Jena Malone) and her father, Ted (David Morse), are very close. Her mother died while giving berth to her and her father never remarried, bringing up Ellie on his own. She is a very intelligent girl and her hobbies...more

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by Randy Turgeon
Summary Eight year old Ellie Arroway (Jena Malone) and her father, Ted (David Morse), are very close. Her mother died while giving berth to her and her father never remarried, bringing up Ellie on his own. She is a very intelligent girl and her hobbies...more

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by E. Benjamin Kelsey
CONTACT is the 1997 movie I've seen the most - five times to be exact. Four of those times were on the big screen, but even on a TV, it's a very impressive film. The same can't be said for films like INDEPENDANCE DAY, but that's because CONTACT is a rare...more

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by Matt Petras
This movie is one of the better ones that I have seen in a long time, although I have not read the book by Carl Sagan I am fairly sure that this movie does the book justice in every respect. The acting in this movie is just superb and casting for the...more

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by Alexadnre Tylski
If we see Zemeckis' s career, we can say that this is a director quite interested in the themes of past and youth. In Forrest Gump or in the Back to the Future trilogy, those themes are explored in every way possible. With Contact, Zemeckis shows us...more

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by Choo Eng Aun, Jack
When I first heard of CONTACT, the hype was building it up as a sci-fi blockbuster. Now, with that in mind, coupled with the knowledge of Jodie Foster's involvement in the project, I thought "What in the world is Foster doing in a sci-fi blockbuster???"....more

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by Tim Voon
CONTACT 1997 A film review by Timothy Voon Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon 4 :-) :-) :-) :-) for the most thought provoking movie I've seen this...more

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by Tony Tellado
Contact (review by Tony Tellado - Sci-Fi Talk) CONTACT is by far the best movie of the summer. It's also probably the most engaging SF film of the decade. Jodie Foster just can't seem to give anything less than an Oscar worthy performance and her...more

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by Kevin Patterson
Contact is a film that tries to do several different things. It is intended to present a realistic picture of what alien contact might be like, to restore a sense of wonder and mystery to the issue of extraterrestrial life, to raise questions...more

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by Serdar Yegulalp
CAPSULE: Intelligent, passionate, and utterly gripping exploration of the idea of interstellar contact. Makes CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND look like a very bad episode of STAR TREK. more

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by Chris Webb
Cast: Jodie Foster (Ellie Arroway), Matthew McConaughey (Palmer Joss), James Woods (Michael Kitz), John Hurt (S.R. Hadden) Tom Skerritt (David Drumlin), Angela Bassett (Rachel Constantine), Jake Busey (Joseph), Jena Malone (Young...more
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by Kathy Glaser
What do you picture in your mind when you hear the words "movie" and "aliens" together? With the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day you could be forgiven for associating a movie about aliens with squid-like creatures that terrorize our planet. But once in...more
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by C.T.Nadovich
I always thought he cream and sugared the science too much in an effort to make it go down layman's throats. To me, that ruins the flavor of the science itself and distorts its message. I've always preferred my science black --- expresso black --- but...more
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by Marty Mapes
***1/2 (out of 4) Jodie Foster is great, and Zemeckis knows how to use film technology without compromising a story's humanity, but the real star of CONTACT is its author, Carl Sagan. more
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by Chad Polenz
Contact Chad'z rating: *** (out of 4 = good) 1997, PG, 150 minutes [2 hours, 30 minutes] [science fiction/drama] starring: Jodie Foster (Dr. Ellie Arroway), Matthew McConaughey (Palmer Joss), Tom Skerrit (Dr. David Drumlin), James Woods (Michael Kitz),...more
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by Seth Bookey
Have you ever been to a movie that evokes a wide spectrum of emotions all within the first twenty minutes or so? Laughter, tears, excitement, and yes, even a lurid thought or two. It is indeed rare that a movie does all this so quickly. Contact is one of...more
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by Andrew Hicks
There have been so many movies in recent years about aliens that if any extraterrestrials ever do show up it will certainly be an anti-climax. CONTACT seems the exception -- no alien intervention could possibly be as anti-climactic as the last...more
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by Michael Redman
There are many times during this film that are remarkably stunning and completely captivating. For the first time in what seems to be eons, that statement applies to something other than the effects in a big budget science fiction movie. What a relief it...more
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by Ivana Redwine
Produced by: Warner Bros. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Effects by: Sony Pictures Imageworks, Cinematography by Don Burgess. Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Angela Bassett, John Hurt, Rob Lowe, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner,...more
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by Joseph Toscano
-- July 1997 [PG] 150 Minutes, 2.5 hours Directed by Robert Zemeckis Starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, John Hurt, Tom Skerrit, James Woods Score: ***** / ***** or 9 / 10 SPOILER WARNING - some of the review may contain information regarding...more
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by Stuart Cracraft
--A review by Stuart Cracraft ====================================================================== CONTACT Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, John Hurt Director: Robert Zemeckis Star Rating: **** (out of ****) Rating out of Ten: 9.0 Grade:...more
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by Steve Kong
When you look up in the sky late at night, do you ever have the feeling that another being is doing the same thing light years away? How could there be so many stars and no other life than just us? It would be a terrible waste of space wouldn't it? more
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by Chuck Dowling
Contact (1997) ** out of ***** - Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett, John Hurt, Rob Lowe, David Morse. Written by: James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg. Based on the novel by: Carl Sagan. Directed by:...more
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by Justin K. Siegel
--A review by Justin Siegel ====================================================================== CONTACT Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey Director: Robert Zemeckis Star Rating: **** (out of ****) Rating out of Ten: 9.8 Grade:...more
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by Phil Brady
Summer science fiction movies are a fairly well defined commodity. We expect a special effects offering of space ships, lasers, aliens, explosions, and what the hell, maybe even a script. The spectacle is the star, so there’s little sense spending big...more
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by Ram Samudrala
When I was a kid, I was the only one on the block who watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos diligently. While it was boring even given my interest in cosmology, there were moments which really enthralled me and captured my attention. I expected /Contact/ to be...more
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by Homer Yen
Jodie Foster plays Ellie Arroway, a prominent scientist and radio astronomer for the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) program. Like many scientists, she is an analytical person whose beliefs are entrenched in empirical evidence...more
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by Michael Jordan
Contact (PG) **** (out of ****) There's a moment late in Robert Zemeckis's Contact where I was reminded of why I started writing movie reviews in the first place. We see a scientist, dressed in a silvery space suit, walking tentatively across...more
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by Ben Hoffman
The opening scene of CONTACT is the most awesome (in the sense of "fantastic") several minutes of great special effects as we are hurtled away from Earth at a huge speed. Our planet becomes a globe, getting smaller and smaller as we speed by the other...more
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by Walter Frith
In a summer being bombarded with 100 million dollar spectacles and action pictures with little or no room to leave an audience breathing, it is truly refreshing to have a big budget Hollywood film arrive in theatres that is skillfully presented,...more
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by Rick Pali
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by Paul John Barnette Jr
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by Brad Aisa
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by Walter Frith
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by Laurie D. T. Mann
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by Michael J. Legeros
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by Steve Rhodes
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by Scott Renshaw
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by Dean Thomas Sebastian Carrano
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by Mark R Leeper
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by Chuck Dowling
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by James Berardinelli