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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.
Dec 14, 1977 · 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
- 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.
Apr 1, 2021 · Close Encounters is a true ensemble piece, closer to Nashville and the other talky classics of contemporary director Robert Altman than a modern sci-fi blockbuster. But among all these characters,...
Jul 27, 2022 · Following the success of "Jaws," Spielberg wrote and directed "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a film about an average guy who witnesses a UFO sighting, experiences strange visions, and ...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is an 1977 American science fiction movie written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is director/writer Steven Spielberg's first film after the enormously successful blockbuster Jaws (1975). Appearing in the late 1970s, it was a soulful, beguiling, magical, and benevolent look at 'close encounters.'
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