Hey all,

I watched a film a while ago and can't remember the name of it, I seem to recall at the beginning you see a girl and her Dad is some sort of researcher, when she grows up she has a similar job.
The film goes on and there is some sort of portal built, there is a large ball that drops through a hoop with the woman in it and she see's her Dad, only it's an alien or something. In reality the ball looks like it takes seconds to drop through the hoop, but when the analyse the tape they found she was in there for a fair few hours...

What's the film called?

Ben

I'd say it's Contact, starring Jodie Foster, dramatised from the book by Carl Sagan.

saw that film in the cinema for an american film its very good

Ooh! I didn't know that.
Is the book worth getting?

If you like serious, thoughtful, 'near future' sci fi it's one of the better ones IMO.

I'd hope the book is better. I thought the film was a really painfully bad telling of a potentially good story, despite Foster being a highly rated actress and me really feeling her frustration at the ending.

Brat; I imagine it was an old war film. My favourite one with Japs in had a few old soldiers on one of the remote islands who refused to believe the war was over because their Emperor would definitely never surrender. They were still fighting decades after. I think it was a true story.

Intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, who surrendered on Lubang Island in the Philippines in March 1974, and Teruo Nakamura, who surrendered on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974, appear to have been the last confirmed holdouts.