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Adina Hoffman
Jerusalem Post
09-26-1997
Contact

Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Screenplay by James V.Hart and Michael Goldenberg. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan. Hebrew title: Contact. 150 minutes. English dialogue, Hebrew subtitles. Parental guidance suggested.

With Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt and Angela Bassett

Contact, based on the novel by Carl Sagan and directed by Robert Zemeckis, may well be the most self-important sci-fi movie ever made - which is not to say that it's not enjoyable. Blending piety and camp in peculiar (and, one senses, not always intentional) measure, the movie manages to hold us first by means of skillful ...

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