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Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.
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- IT WAS INITIALLY A VERY DIFFERENT FILM. Spielberg’s initial story outline involved UFOs and shady government dealings following the Watergate scandal, which became a script entitled “Watch the Skies.”
- IT’S NAMED AFTER LEGITIMATE UFO RESEARCH. Spielberg partly based his idea on the research of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a civilian scientific advisor to Project Blue Book who eventually admitted that 11 percent of the study’s findings about unidentified flying objects could not be explained using science.
- THERE’S A CAMEO FROM THE GODFATHER OF UFO RESEARCH. Hynek, who also served as a technical advisor on the movie, makes an uncredited cameo in the final scene of the movie.
- NOBODY WANTED THE STARRING ROLE. The director first offered the part of Roy Neary to actor Steve McQueen, who turned it down because he said he couldn’t cry on cue, something he saw as essential to the character.
With Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon. Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Steven Spielberg
- 1977-12-14
Apr 1, 2021 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind opened for the 1977 holiday season to enormous financial success and universal acclaim. But it still wasn't finished, at least not the way Spielberg wanted it...
May 17, 2018 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind is particularly notable for its special effects, the creation of Douglas Trumbull, who also created the noteworthy special effects in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Dec 16, 2014 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind A first encounter with Steven Spielberg's wondrous alien-contact epic in a local cinema in 1978 led BFI National Archive curator John Oliver to return four more times in the following weeks – and the thrill of this most moving of sci-fi films remains today.
Columbia. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Script credited to Spielberg but early draft actually written by Paul Schrader (1946- ), who disagreed with Spielberg over the treatment of his script and withdrew his name from the project. Cast includes Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Cary Guffey and François Truffaut. 135 minutes.
