Wasn't it from a book by Sagan?
Sagan was so over rated on so many different levels.
Carl Sagan’s daughter said he smoked marijuana every day of his life.
Carl Sagan was able to make science (somewhat) popular to the masses, but it seems he was also somewhat full of himself.
When he learned that Apple had internally named a PowerMac project "Sagan," he demanded they change the name, so they did - To "Butt Head Astronomer." At that point he sued them, and lost. Twice.
Mark
Yes, Contact was a book by Carl Sagan. And Sagan’s book, in many ways, was better - not just one white woman but five people representing the world, not a conspiracy theory by a rich guy but world wide effort reaching for the stars.
The book had a spiritual ending closer to Buddhism than Christianity, but the movie was definitely anti-Christian.