Contact: Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away. Sphere: Officials find a spaceship that plunged into the Pacific 300 years ago.
General Note: Dialogue in English with optional French soundtrack, and optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish ; closed-captioned.Includes commentaries, computer animation concepts and tests, special effect designs, theatrical trailers & TV spots.Contact (1997) is based on the novel by Carl Sagan and the story by Sagan and Ann Druyan; Sphere (1998) is based on the novel by Michael Crichton.Title information taken from the container.
Participant or Performer Note: Contact: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughy, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett. Sphere: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah, Liev Schreiber, Marga Gomez.