Top billed cast

1. 

   Jodie Foster

   Ellie Arroway

2. 

   Matthew McConaughey

   Palmer Joss

3. 

   James Woods

   Michael Kitz

4. 

   John Hurt

   S. R. Hadden

5. 

   Tom Skerritt

   David Drumlin

6. 

   William Fichtner

   Kent

7. 

   David Morse

   Ted Arroway

8. 

   Angela Bassett

   Rachel Constantine

9. 

   Geoffrey Blake

   Fisher

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Reviews

A review by tmdb28039023

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-08-27

Early on in Contact a character is introduced who goes by the name “Kent Clark,” and for the remainder of the film I simply could not get over the fact that no one ever even mentions that he is named after Bizarro’s alter ego.

My theory is that this is a figurative wink to the audience, letting us know beforehand what we otherwise discover at long last: that the events that are about to unfold are nothing but an elaborate prank on the audience and, possibly, the cast.

This movie exists in a limbo somewhere in between Close Encounters of the Third Kind’s unabashed childlike wonder...read the rest

Recommendations

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2. Cosmos59%
3. Arrival76%
4. Fire in the Sky66%
5. The Martian77%
6. Star Trek: The Motion Picture64%
7. Transcendence60%
8. Capricorn One67%
9. Solaris59%
10. Stowaway60%
11. Primer67%
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey80%
13. Pi71%
14. Allegiant61%
15. Interstellar84%
16. K-PAX72%
17. Paycheck62%
18. Monsters61%
19. The Fourth Kind63%
20. The Day the Earth Stood Still74%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$90,000,000.00

Revenue
$171,120,329.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• nasa
• extraterrestrial technology
• new mexico
• prime number
• radio wave
• wormhole
• fanatic
• spirituality
• religion
• scientist
• sabotage
• ham radio
• astronomy
• alien contact
• mechanical engineering
• observatory
• eccentric man
• radio telescope
• defiant