FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Contact
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer69%as of 2026-01-15
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.9/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic62/100as of 2026-01-15
What it is
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. 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.
At a glance
- Genres
- Science fiction / Drama
- Original language
- English
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