| Contact (Snap Case) |  | Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Jena Malone, Geoffrey Blake, William Fichtner
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 150 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: WARD15041D
ISBN: 0790733226
UPC: 085391504122
EAN: 9780790733227
ASIN: 0790733226
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1997
Release Date: December 30, 1997
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Product Description
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.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
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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 Finally, Carl Sagan's masterful novel in Full HD July 27, 2010
Mark (Adelaide, Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Contact has long been in my list of top 10 movies. A big fan of Carl Sagan in my youth (his series Cosmos inspired many budding Astronomers I'm sure) seeing his novel contact realised as a motion picture was a joyful occasion for me and while there are a few differences from the book I was extremely pleased with the result.
The choice of Jodie Foster as Elly worked well as she brought her considerable acting talent to crafting a character driven by a thirst for knowledge and the need to know that we are not alone. Other powerful performances from Tom Skerrit and Matthew McConaughey round out the main characters in this movie nicely.
Stunning visuals, great soundtrack, and great philosophical questions to answer.
This will always be one of my favourite movies and I am glad that I can now enjoy it in magnificent full HD.
I have Always Enjoyed This Movie July 25, 2010
John Steiner (Glendale, AZ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have always enjoyed Contact and when I decently upgraded my DVD copy to Blu-Ray I was not disappointed. I continue to enjoy this movie, only now in Blu-Ray.
Consciousness July 6, 2010
Robert Bulterman (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Fantastic Movie. If you watch it again, Jodie Foster's experience passing through the wormhole and her testimony before Congress about her "trip" is an uncanny description of a classic Ayahuasca/ DMT experience. You don't need the trillion dollar machine, just some DMT or 5meoDMT. " It's so beautiful. I never knew," etc. Listen to Foster as she "comes on to the drug," or falls through the machine. Even her visitation with her father is common interpersonal psychology being played out under the influence of DMT, mescaline or even psilocybin. It's all about multi dimensional consciousness as experienced through these drugs/plants. The questions posed by the congressional committee are questions you'd pose about some of these shamanic experiences. Interesting.
A top notch Bluray release! July 4, 2010
C. Fogus (Spokane, WA United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
As others have stated, it would have been nice to have this in 16:9 widescreen format. But that is minor and does not decrease my rating of this Bluray release of Contact at all. This is by far the best this film has ever looked. A masterful transfer by Warner Brothers and another quality release that deserves to be in your movie library. 5 solid stars.
 CONTACT Blu Ray May 22, 2010
Carlitos (PA, USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love the movie, I have the DVD version but I wanted the Blu ray.. No question is an upgrade.. the images are much better.. but still, IS NOT 16:9... is LETTERBOX 2:40 aspect ratio... That is my only reason why is only 4 starts..
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