After an alien race broadcasts a signal back to Earth, Jodie Foster vies to be the human being chosen to represent the entire planet in the first meeting.

'Contact' was adapted from a novel written by noted astronomer Carl Sagan, who served as a producer on the film. The line repeated in the film about a universe without more life being "an awful waste of space" was one of Sagan's famous quotes.

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