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Contact
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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“Take a journey to the heart of the universe.”
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- Jul 11, 1997
- 2h 30m
- English
- Robert Zemeckis
- Michael Goldenberg, Carl Sagan, James V. Hart
- Released
- $90.0M
- $171.1M
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