One of my favorite sci-fi films!!!

Rating: Null/10 (20 April 2004)

Jodie Foster really should have gotten a third Academy Award for this truly enthralling adventure film. She plays an astronomer who gets grant money for a project that is criticized by many respected people in her field. But one night, she hears a pulsating signal from space, and from there, watch the film!!! The great cast includes the beautiful Matthew McConaughey as pretty much a love interest. I like that for once a film shows a female protag with a male love interest in a genre that is mainly populated by men. Also in the cast are Angela Bassett, James Woods, David Morse, William Fichtner, Tom Skerrit, Jake Busey, and John Hurt. My favorite scenes are always when Jodie walks across the walkway toward her spaceship with the ocean hissing and the machine whirring below her. And then the journey she takes, beautiful!!!