Contact (movie)

Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story for the movie. Sagan died before the movie was completed and shown in movie theaters.

It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. It also stars Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey, and David Morse. 

The movie was filmed on location at the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Mir space station and at Cape Canaveral in Florida, and the rest was filmed and produced in Warner Hollywood Studios and Culver Studios in Los Angeles.

The movie was successful at the box office, earning $171.1 million on a budget of $90 million.

The movie got positive reviews from the audience and mostly positive reviews from movie critics as well.

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