Product Details

• Actors: Jodie Foster, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew McConaughey, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson
• Directors: Robert Zemeckis, Barry Levinson
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, German, Spanish
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: January 2, 2007
• Run Time: 285 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FOPPEM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #51,142 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Contact / Sphere" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Is something or someone out there? Messages from outer space raise hopes (and, for some, fears) that intelligent beings from light years away are reaching out to us...and sending design plans for the machine that can take us to meet them. Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey star in and Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) directs an exhilarating adaptation of Carl Sagan's Contact (Side A), the dazzling tale of humanity's greatest voyage of discovery. The excitement runs deep in Sphere (Side B) as officials find a huge spacecraft that plunged into the Pacific - 300 years earlier. Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson lead an underwater expedition into the mysterious craft in this adventure directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and based on Michael Crichton's novel. Step aboard for a new dimension in thrills!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars how good is Contact!, May 12, 2007

By	Nigel T. Bowyer "astro" (E.Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A surprisingly good film based on the SETI project, with a great question at the end!!
I did not find Sphere to be as interesting as Contact.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Double Feature, October 27, 2007

By	Roger L. Keith "Bama Country" (Tuscaloosa, AL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Love these new double features they have out can't beat the deal on these two films one low price,Sphere and Contact both are really good, great acting, good story lines and special effects....Enjoy.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contact-Great/Sphere-Not.., July 25, 2007

By	Bernice D. Knouse - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Contact is one of my favorite stories of all times. I loved Carl Sagan and had read the book long before it had become a movie.And Jodi Foster &
Matthew McConaughey did a great job with this story!

Sphere,on the other hand,also was a great book HOWEVER the 'movie' was lacking severly. Although the actors were all great people for other projects I am clueless as to how anyone ever thought they needed to be in this story.Still it is an ok scifi film to have in your collection but my advice would be to buy the book as well because it really was a BETTER story when read.