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Does anybody know

posted 14 years ago by WomenAreNothing
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The movie where a chick thinks shes going into space when in reality her ship goes into the sea. She thinks she touches sand and stuff but then she finds out her ship never really went into space. Sorry for vague description but Im trying to find it. Thanks!

[–] artao 14 years ago

NO.
but, it sounds kinda cool and i wanna watch it. I'm posting so that if someone else posts what movie that is I'll know and can look it up.
thanks. :D

[–] blkhwks1927 14 years ago

Yeah it is called Contact with Jodie Foster. I loved it. In fact there is a DVD Sci-Fi 2-pack that includes Contact and Sphere packaged together.

[–] WomenAreNothing 14 years ago

YES! thats the one... Ive been looking for it forever. Saw it when I was a kid and have been wondering about it lately. Thanks a lot!

[–] Darth_Ravenous 14 years ago

The movie where a chick thinks shes going into space when in reality her ship goes into the sea. She thinks she touches sand and stuff but then she finds out her ship never really went into space. Sorry for vague description but Im trying to find it. Thanks!

The movie is Contact and is based on the novel (of the same name) written by the late Carl Sagan. Great movie and even better novel.

**Spoilers below**

Jodie Foster DOES go into space and reaches the planet/destination that the aliens who send out the instructions for building the machine she travels in, set her to.

Sagan did something very clever - instead of describing the aliens as having tentacles or something cheesy, he makes them to be mindreaders who manifest themselves as the person closest to the traveller (Foster), so she'd be more comfortable dealing with them and asking question as part of the first contact.

The beach is just a setting for the whole scene, which again has a special connection to Foster and her dad.