Contact - 1997 - 8/10

Thinking persons SciFi.
Dr. Arroway, diehard believer in SETI, suddenly receives a response.
Indeed, the signal lights up the board, she contacts other listening posts and soon the world knows.
Extraterrestrials have heard our hello and have sent us “instructions”.
Sprawling film that encompasses career rivalries, politics, corporate interference, religion.
Long, with measured interludes, but never dull.
Marvelous cast, fairly accurate science (Carl Sagan advised), thoughtful resolution.
Oh, would that this were so.