CONTACT

( Warner Brothers )

Director Robert Zemeckis

based on the novel by the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of Dr Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway ( Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent message that comes to earth from the distant star Vega. With the message decoded, the planet faces the new mystery with hope and with fear. Confronted for the first time with evidence of intellectual life in another world and invited to visit an extraterrestrial culture, the world has to decide.... who will go ?

As humanity approaches the new millennium, Ellie wrestles with the reconciliation of science and faith, of mystery and certainty. She has received this message with detailed instructions for building a mysterious machine that will make it possible to visit an extraterrestrial world and she must decide whether she should stay safe or risk her life to be the first person to make contact.

Contact was filmed on locations in New Mexico, Arizona, Washington DC, CapeCanaveral in Florida and the largest radio telescope in the world, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.