1977 2h 17m Steven Spielberg

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Name: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Genre: Drama, Science-Fiction
Released: 1977
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon

★ 7.6 IMDb

Drama Science-Fiction

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Writers Matthew Robbins, Hal Barwood, Paul Schrader, John Hill, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Belson

Cast Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon

DP Vilmos Zsigmond

Production Designer Joe Alves

Music John Williams

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Entman and Seymour, Jump Cut Close Encounters of the Third Kind, by Dana Polan by Murphy Jill, Alphaville

On Steven Spielberg

Citizen Spielberg by Ben McCann, Screening the Past

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