1) Product Description
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: PGRelease Date: 3-FEB-2004Media Type: DVD

2) Amazon.com
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson

1) Amazing how sharp   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
We love this movie! Decided to purchase the new BluRay release since our old DVD was somehow damaged while moving. Really impressed at how sharp the images are. Great conversion to blu ray. If you love Contact, you'll love this new edition.

2) An instant classic   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
1997 gave us two of the best movies of the decade...Titanic, and Contact. From the opening shot to the end credits, Contact is a combination of great acting, (led by the always amazing Jodie Foster), great story and amazing directing by Robert Zemeckis. Entertaining and inspiring. A classic.

3) Love this movie   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Contact is one of the most well-done sci-fi movies I have ever seen. Stays away from exaggerated technological explanations for things and focuses on how things would be if another Alien specie contacted us. More about Humanity.

4) great movie   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I LOVE THIS MOVIE,I THINK ITS ONE OF THE BEST SI-FI MOVIES EVER MADE,I HAVE THE DVD,BUT WHEN IT CAME OUT ON BLU RAY I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT!!!!

5) Excellent Blu Ray transfer   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Excellent high definition transfer- major upgrade over the standard definition DVD.Recommended.