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Contact [Blu-ray]

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Contact [Blu-ray] | Blu-ray

Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis

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Binding:

Blu-ray

Rating:

PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Run Time:

149 minutes

Format:

AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen

Studio:

Warner Home Video

Number of Discs:

1

Aspect Ratio:

2.40:1

Release Date:

October 06, 2009

Sales Rank:

1,937st

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Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this visionary drama based on Carl Sagan's novel about human kind's first encounter with extraterrestial life, directed by another Oscar winner, Robert Zemeckis. Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: PG Age: 883929064144 UPC: 883929064144 Manufacturer No: 1000092338

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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/06/2009 Run time: 153 minutes Rating: Pg

Amazon.com
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

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 451 reviews)

Amazing how sharp by R. Graham (Texas, Sparkling City by the Bay)

5 Stars
November 28, 2009
We love this movie! Decided to purchase the new BluRay release since our old DVD was somehow damaged while moving. Really impressed at how sharp the images are. Great conversion to blu ray. If you love Contact, you'll love this new edition.

An instant classic by J. Ortiz Rivera

5 Stars
November 24, 2009
1997 gave us two of the best movies of the decade...Titanic, and Contact. From the opening shot to the end credits, Contact is a combination of great acting, (led by the always amazing Jodie Foster), great story and amazing directing by Robert Zemeckis. Entertaining and inspiring. A classic.

Love this movie by Benjamin L. Boruchowitz (Ohio)

5 Stars
November 22, 2009
Contact is one of the most well-done sci-fi movies I have ever seen. Stays away from exaggerated technological explanations for things and focuses on how things would be if another Alien specie contacted us. More about Humanity.

great movie by William L. Wensel (indiana)

4 Stars
November 14, 2009
I LOVE THIS MOVIE,I THINK ITS ONE OF THE BEST SI-FI MOVIES EVER MADE,I HAVE THE DVD,BUT WHEN IT CAME OUT ON BLU RAY I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT!!!!

Excellent Blu Ray transfer by A B

4 Stars
October 26, 2009
Excellent high definition transfer- major upgrade over the standard definition DVD. Recommended.

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