“Contact” was the first movie Robert Zemeckis directed after winning an Oscar for Best Director on “Forrest Gump” in 1995.
The film stars Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway, a scientist whose lifelong search for proof of extraterrestrial life is vindicated when she uncovers a mysterious signal from Vega, a star system 26 light-years away from Earth.
Ellie spends much of the movie debating the validity of this signal and its implications with those in her orbit, including the Christian philosopher and her part-time lover Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey).
When Ellie argues that he cannot actually prove God exists, Palmer asks Ellie…The post A Legal Battle With Francis Ford Coppola Could Have Been The End Of Contact appeared first on /Film.
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