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Today’s Feature: Contact

Starring: Tom Skerritt, David Morse, James Woods, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Matthew McConaughey, William Fichtner, Jodie Foster

“We are not alone…” Two-time Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster and Hollywood’s brightest new star, Matthew McConaughey, shine in this spellbinding drama of a dedicated astronomer’s quest to make first Contact. Despite scorn from her colleagues, Ellie Arroway devoutly eavesdrops on the universe. And then, one fateful morning, she hears a cryptic signal. As the world’s scientists scramble to decode “the message,” Ellie must struggle to become Earth’s single emissary on a journey beyond theory or experience. Seeking support, she turns top-level government advisor, Palmer Joss. Separated by very different beliefs, they reunite in their passion for knowledge and truth. From Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan’s best-seller comes the story of a visionary scientist’s unshakable conviction that somewhere in this boundless universe an intelligence yearns for Contact.

PG 1997


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