Contact/Sphere
Starring: Jena Malone, David Morse, Jodie Foster, Geoffrey Blake, William FichtnerDirector: Robert Zemeckis, Barry Levinson
Studio: Warner Home Video
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Running Time: 285 minutes
DVD Release: January 2nd 2007
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Is something or someone out there? Messages from outer space raise hopes (and, for some, fears) that intelligent beings from light years away are reaching out to us...and sending design plans for the machine that can take us to meet them. Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey star in and Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) directs an exhilarating adaptation of Carl Sagan's Contact (Side A), the dazzling tale of humanity's greatest voyage of discovery. The excitement runs deep in Sphere (Side B) as officials find a huge spacecraft that plunged into the Pacific - 300 years earlier. Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson lead an underwater expedition into the mysterious craft in this adventure directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and based on Michael Crichton's novel. Step aboard for a new dimension in thrills!
User Reviews
Contact-Great/Sphere-Not.. - Rating: 5/5
Contact is one of my favorite stories of all times. I loved Carl Sagan and had read the book long before it had become a movie.And Jodi Foster &
Matthew McConaughey did a great job with this story!
Sphere,on the other hand,also was a great book HOWEVER the 'movie' was lacking severly. Although the actors were all great people for other projects I am clueless as to how anyone ever thought they needed to be in this story.Still it is an ok scifi film to have in your collection but my advice would be to buy the book as well because it really was a BETTER story when read.
how good is Contact! - Rating: 5/5
A surprisingly good film based on the SETI project, with a great question at the end!!
I did not find Sphere to be as interesting as Contact.
