Title information taken from the container. 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. 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.
Contents:
Contact (150 min.) -- Sphere (135 min.).
Summary:
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.
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