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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Science Fiction
    Drama
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Dec 14, 1977
Rated PG

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.

Details

  • Directors
  • Revenue$306,889,114
  • Budget
    $20,000,000
  • Vote Average
    7.4
  • Vote Count
    4173
  • Popularity
    34
  • Language
    हिन्दी
  • Origin Country
    US

Cast

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Richard Dreyfuss
Roy Neary
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François Truffaut
Claude Lacombe
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Teri Garr
Ronnie Neary
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Melinda Dillon
Jillian Guiler
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Bob Balaban
David Laughlin
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J. Patrick McNamara
Project Leader
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Warren J. Kemmerling
Wild Bill
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Roberts Blossom
Farmer
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Phil Dodds
ARP Musician
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Cary Guffey
Barry Guiler
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Shawn Bishop
Brad Neary
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Adrienne Campbell
Sylvia Neary
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Justin Dreyfuss
Toby Neary
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Lance Henriksen
Robert
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Merrill Connally
Team Leader
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Amy Douglass
Implantee
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Gene Dynarski
Ike
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Carl Weathers
Military Policeman
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Norman Bartold
Norman Bartold
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F.J. O'Neil
ARP Project Member
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Hal Barwood
Returnee #2 Flt. 19
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Matthew Robbins
Returnee #3 Flt. 19
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Gene Rader
Hawker
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Daniel Nunez
Federale
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Chuy Franco
Federale
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Luis Contreras
Federale
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Galen Thompson
Special Forces
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John Dennis Johnston
Special Forces
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Robert Broyles
Dirty Tricks #3
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George DiCenzo
Major Benchley
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Alexander Lockwood
Implantee
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Josef Sommer
Larry Butler
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Bill Thurman
Air Traffic
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James Keane
Radio Telescope Team
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Philip Dodds
Jean Claude
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Mary Gafrey
Mrs. Harris
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Michael J. Dyer
Himself
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Roger Ernest
Highway Patrolman
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Randy Hermann
Returnee #1 Flt. 19
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David Anderson
Air Traffic Controller
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Richard L. Hawkins
Air Traffic Controller
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Craig Shreeve
Air Traffic
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Roy E. Richards
Air East Pilot
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Eumenio Blanco
Federale
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Dennis McMullen
Radio Telescope Team
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Cy Young
Radio Telescope Team
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Tom Howard
Radio Telescope Team
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Richard Stuart
Truck Dispatcher
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Bob Westmoreland
Load Dispatcher
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Matt Emery
Support Leader
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John Ewing
Dirty Tricks #1
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Kirk Raymond
Dirty Tricks #4
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Keith Atkinson
Dirty Tricks #2
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Monty Jordan
Special Forces Commander / Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
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Basil Hoffman
Longly (uncredited)
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Stephen Powers
UN Observer (uncredited)
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J. Allen Hynek
Man Smoking Pipe at Landing Site (uncredited)
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Howard K. Smith
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)

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Reviews

(2)
Ian Beale
80%
**Do the mashed potato!** Roy Neely is a gas repair man who has a close encounter with an alien craft and begins having strange visions of mashed potatoes, shaving cream and mud mountains. This all leads to Needy's marriage breaking up and he sets out to find the truth about his mashed potato visions. The climax at a mountain is breathtaking when Neely comes face to face with his destiny. One of Spielberg's best with a nice cameo by French director Francois Truffaut.
CinemaSerf
70%
I always remember as a child hoping/praying that if extra terrestrials ever did come to visit us, that they wouldn't arrive in America. Think "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) or most other sci-fi stories: the first things they would see when they opened their door would be guns, tanks, missiles, soldiers... This film takes a far more sophisticated approach to how we might engage with an alien species, and together with some super effects and a far more nuanced storyline leaves us with room for optimism that we might not just try to shoot first and ask questions afterwards - should anyone ever do arrive. Spielberg was still, in my view anyway, learning his craft when he wrote/directed this and that shows in the real paucity of pace for the first hour. Richard Dreyfuss is adequate, but the constantly amazed/perplexed looks on his face start to become annoying after a while. François Truffaut features now and again - largely as part of a parallel storyline - but really, this only begins to engage in the last thirty minutes when the threads all knit together giving us a clever denouement as the scientists discover an innovative, musical, way to communicate that doesn't involved threats and bullets. Oddly enough, even when I first saw this at the age of 9, I never got any sense of menace from our travellers and the absence of any substantial physical form for us to identify with seems to help keep the magic working. Not John Williams' finest work, I thought the score suffered from the slow rate of progress with the plot but the symbolism and curiosity of spirit this film engenders makes it still, just about, worth sticking though...