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A repairman witnesses a close encounter with an alien ship from a far off world and then becomes obsessed by the strange craft.

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ProducerJulia Phillips, Michael Phillips

EAN5050629650167

eBay Product ID (ePID)8048561868

Product Key Features

ActorTeri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Carl Weathers, Roberts Blossom, Warren Kemmerling, Cary Guffey, Pat Mcnamara, Richard Dreyfuss, Lance Henriksen

Film/TV TitleClose Encounters of the Third Kind

DirectorSteven Spielberg

LanguageEnglish

Run Time130 Mins

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2017

Features40th Anniversary

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerJohn Williams

Production DesignerJoe Alves

ReviewsNew York Times - Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1977"

Additional InformationCLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND is Steven Spielberg's extraordinary film about a man named Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) who becomes obsessed with meeting extraterrestrials after encountering a UFO on an abandoned road one night. Against the wishes of his wife (Teri Garr) and children, Neary, along with another witness to the sighting (Melinda Dillon), travels to a mysterious mountain where the government has built a landing strip hoping to attract the aliens. Director Francois Truffaut costars as Claude Lacombe, one of the organizers of the project. Spielberg hoped to follow up the huge success of JAWS with a low-budget film that would be an easy shoot, but, thanks in part to the complicated special effects, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS quickly snowballed into being an expensive endeavor but a commercial and artistic success. No one who has seen the film has ever looked at a plate of mashed potatotes the same way again.

Special EffectsDouglas Trumbull, Roy Arbogast

ScreenwriterSteven Spielberg

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleClose Encounters Of The Third Kind

EditorMichael Kahn

Director of PhotographyVilmos Zsigmond

Consumer AdviceContains mild language and scary scenes