Contact - February 19
We will watch Contact, starring Jodie Foster, on Saturday, February 19th at the Martins’.
640 SW 129th St
Burien, WA 98146
From IMDB:
Starring:
Jena Malone …. Young Ellie
David Morse …. Ted Arroway
Jodie Foster …. Ellie Arroway
Geoffrey Blake …. Fisher
William Fichtner …. Kent
Sami Chester …. Vernon
Timothy McNeil …. Davio
Laura Elena Surillo …. Cantina Woman
Matthew McConaughey …. Palmer Joss
Tom Skerritt …. David Drumlin
Synopsis:
Since childhood, Ellie Arroway has been interested in space and radio signals, spurred on by the death of her parents early in life. As an adult she is a scientist who listens to space for signals from the stars, however her programme has it’s funding cut and she finds herself looking for private funding. Four years after securing such funding, she discovers a mathematical signal from space. As the Government gets involved the signal reveals more information - thousands of pages of mechanical schematics. As the design is built, the world reacts to news of alien life, and Ellie is transformed by her indescribable experience of another world.
