Contact (Snap Case) - 2906

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 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
ASIN: 0790733226
VSKU: 5ALWH00008IP_ns
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Jodie Foster|Matthew McConaughey|Jena Malone|Geoffrey Blake|William Fichtner|Sami Chester|Timothy McNeil|Laura Elena Surillo|David Morse|Tom Skerritt|Henry Strozier|Michael Chaban|Max Martini|Larry King|Thomas Garner|Conroy Chino|Dan Gifford|James Woods|Vance Valencia|Angela Bassett|Donna J. Kelley|Leon Harris (III)|Claire Shipman|Behrooz Afrakhan|Saemi Nakamura|Maria Celeste Arraras|Tabitha Soren|Geraldo Rivera|Ian Whitcomb (II)|Jay Leno|Natalie Allen|Robert D. Novak|Geraldine A. Ferraro|Ann Druyan|Rob Lowe|Jake Busey|Kathleen Kennedy (II)|Michael Albala|Ned Netterville|Leo Lee|John Hurt|William Jordan|David St. James|Jill Dougherty|Haynes Brooke|John Holliman|Bobbie Battista|Dee Dee Myers|Bryant Gumbel|Linden Soles|Steven Ford|Alexander Zemeckis|Janie Peterson|Philippe Bergeron|Jennifer Balgobin|Anthony Hamilton|Rebecca T. Beucler|Marc Macaulay|Pamela Wilsey|Tucker Smallwood|Jeff Johnson|Yuji Okumoto|Gerry Griffin|Brian Alston|Rob Elk|Mark Thomason|José Rey|Todd Patrick Breaugh|Alex Veadov|Alice Kushida|Robin Gammell|Richardson Morse|Seiji Okamura|Bernard Shaw|Mak Takano|Hiroshi Tom Tanaka|Catherine Dao|Kristoffer Ryan Winters|Valorie Armstrong|Jim Hild|Bill Thomas|Diego Montoya|Carl Gilliard|Candice Cook|Paul L. Nolan|Christopher Boyer|Douglas MacArthur|Frank Principe|Delaney Williams|Joseph McCarthy (II)|William B. Kaplan|Adolf Hitler|Neil Armstrong|Martin Luther King|Russell Sanderlin Sr.|Neal Matarazzo|Frank Silva (III)|Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Bill Clinton|Walter Winchell|Robert Aguilar Jr.|Jonathan Adler (II)|Matt Bennett (III)|Russell Darling|J.A. Preston|Lo Ming|Sunshine Logroño|Pamela Fischer|Mark Bailey|Richard Nixon|Derrick Damions|Marisa Petroro|Aixa Clemente|Robert Zemeckis
Binding: Dvd