Old v. Gold 219: Contact
An episode of the Old v. Gold podcast, hosted by Tim Bland, titled "Old v. Gold 219: Contact" was published on February 24, 2015 and runs 64 minutes.
February 24, 2015 ·64m · Old v. Gold
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Episode Description
In Robert Zemeckis' 1997 film "Contact," a child raised in a single-tragedy household grows up to be Jodie Foster and a scientist listening for signals from extraterrestrials, which are tough to hear over all the mansplaining directed at her. Last year's "Interstellar" reminded us of this movie in a lot of ways, good and bad, and not just in both films' McConaugheyness.
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