Back Contact (cinta) AN اتصال (فيلم 1997) Arabic كونطاكط ARY اتصال ARZ Кантакт (фільм, 1997) BE Контакт (филм, 1997) Bulgarian Contact (pel·lícula de 1997) Catalan Kontakt (film, 1997) Czech Contact (1997) German Επαφή (ταινία, 1997) Greek
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| Directed by | Robert Zemeckis |
| Screenplay by | James V. Hart Michael Goldenberg |
| Story by | Carl Sagan Ann Druyan |
| Based on | Contact by Carl Sagan |
| Produced by | Robert Zemeckis Steve Starkey |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Don Burgess |
| Edited by | Arthur Schmidt |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 150 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million[2] |
| Box office | $171.1 million[3] |
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. 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. It features the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Mir space station, and the Space Coast surrounding Cape Canaveral.
Sagan and Druyan began working on Contact in 1979. They wrote a film treatment over 100 pages long and set up the project at Warner Bros. with Peter Guber and Lynda Obst as producers. When development stalled, Sagan published Contact as a novel in 1985, and the film reentered development in 1989. Roland Joffé and George Miller had planned to direct, but Joffé dropped out in 1993, and Warner Bros. fired Miller in 1995. With Zemeckis as director, filming ran from September 1996 to February 1997. Sony Pictures Imageworks handled most of the visual effects.
Contact was released on July 11, 1997, and received positive reviews from critics. The film grossed over $171 million worldwide. It won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and several Saturn Awards.
- ^ "CONTACT (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. July 22, 1997. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
- ^ Benjamin Svetkey (July 18, 1997). "Making Contact". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 19, 2007. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
- ^ "Contact". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on April 18, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2009.