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Starring:
Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett, John Hurt, David Morse, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey, William Fichtner, Geoffrey Blake, Jena Malone
Directed By:
Robert Zemeckis
Written By:
Michael Goldenberg
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Contact (1997)
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Movie Review by AJ 
April 14th, 2006
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Carl Sagan's novel Contact was a mediocre tale of epic proportions...it had great scientific facts and thought, but little emotion or believable character development. Zemeckis' film version is exactly the opposite: It is oozing with familiar Hollywood sentimentality, but the science is often glossed-over or, at its worst, extremely flimsy. Zemeckis' technical wizardry, though, makes the film much more effective than the book, even though underneath all of its "Gee whiz!" trappings there is little to nothing worth drooling over. No one would tell you that I am a great fan of Jodie Foster, and as such, her performance here is adequate, but nothing special. There are some breathtaking sequences (Foster's trip through space recalls 2001: A Space Odyssey), but it is mild entertainment. It may simplify the book, but hey, the book was too complicated for its own good in the first place.
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