Product Information
A repairman witnesses a close encounter with an alien ship from a far off world and then becomes obsessed by the strange craft.Product Identifiers
ProducerJulia Phillips, Michael Phillips
EAN5035822650138
eBay Product ID (ePID)3946185
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
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time131 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen\2.35 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2001
FeaturesWidescreen, Collector's Edition\1977 Watch The Skies Featurette\The Making Of Documentary\14 Deleted Scenes\Filmographies\Original Theatrical Trailer\Special Edition Trailer\Animated Menus, With Subtitles
GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs2
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 5.1\DTS Surround
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Movie/TV TitleClose Encounters Of The Third Kind
EditorMichael Kahn
Director of PhotographyVilmos Zsigmond