Contact is a movie directed by Robert Zemeckis in 1997 and based on the book of the same name by Carl Sagan, first published in 1985. The movie features Jena Malone, David Morse, Jodie Foster, Geoffrey Blake, William Fichtner, Sami Chester, and others.
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Storyline
Dr. Ellie Arroway works for the SETI program at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Four years later, around 1996, with Drumlin seeking to close the SETI program, Arroway discovers a signal repeating a sequence of prime numbers, apparently sent from the star system Vega about 26 light-years away.
Movie vs Book
Year
1997
Minutes
150
Movie Rate
7.40
Source: IMDb
Year
1985
Pages
580
Book Rate
8.26
S: Goodreads
Book
Contact
Author: Carl Sagan
Country: USA
First published in: 1985
Length: 580 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.”
QUENTIN TARANTINO (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter, Actor)
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