1997 · 2h 30m · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Contact

Directed byRobert Zemeckis

IMDb

7.5

318K votes

Metacritic

critics

Rotten Tomatoes

69%

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Box office

$171M

1.9x its $90M budget

Released Jul 11, 1997 by Warner Bros. Entertainment

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31st of 172Films of 1997 with 10,000+ votes

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Critics (Metacritic)62

Audience (IMDb x 10)75

Audiences liked it more than critics did, by 13 points.

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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: James V. Hart Michael Goldenberg Carl Sagan Ann Druyan
Music: Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Don Burgess
Editing: Arthur Schmidt
Producers: Steve Starkey Robert Zemeckis

1 nominations, 0 wins

Awards record

Best Sound · Academy Awards 1998
Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
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On Contact

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