Depending on who you ask, Robert Zemeckis’ 1997 sci-fi drama “Contact” is either a philosophical masterpiece or a boring morality lesson.
Wherever you land, though, it’s hard to separate the film from the many problems it ran into after it was released.
From George Miller suing Warner Brothers over a contract dispute to a First Amendment debate brought forward by the White House, a lot of attention was heaped upon the adaptation of Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, and not a lot of it was positive.However, there was also quite a bit of trouble the film faced before and during production.
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