Contact
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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.
- Director
- Robert Zemeckis
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $171M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Contact actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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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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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Contact appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
Placed at #6 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The record
Awards
1 win · 1 nomination
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Sound
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
1 win
- WinnerHugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Contact returned 1.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $90M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $171M
- Release date
- Jul 11, 1997
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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