Rotten
Something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Contact
Take a journey to the heart of the universe.
1997 · 2h 30m · PG
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
Directed by
Robert Zemeckis
Overview
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Director and cast
- Robert Zemeckis Director
- Jodie Foster as Eleanor Arroway
- Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss
- James Woods as Michael Kitz
- John Hurt as S. R. Hadden
- Tom Skerritt as David Drumlin
- William Fichtner as Kent
- David Morse as Ted Arroway
- Angela Bassett as Rachel Constantine
- Geoffrey Blake Cast
- Max Martini Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Like Jodie Foster's hopeful space voyager in the picture, "Contact" may not travel quite as far as it hopes to go, but the trip is worth taking nonetheless.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten
Contact takes forever to lift off.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
When Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be. The rest is pandering.
Sarah Kerr, Slate
Rotten
When it tries to personify the struggle between skepticism and faith in the relationship between Ellie and her theologian boyfriend, it becomes flat and obvious.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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