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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. The film depicts the interconnected stories of Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO); Jillian Guiler (Dillon), a single mother whose three-year-old son Barry is abducted during the same UFO manifestation; and Claude Lacombe (Truffaut), a French scientist pursuing a link between recent unexplained scientific phenomena across the globe.
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Writer
- Steven Spielberg · Paul Schrader · Jerry Belson · Matthew Robbins
Who made it 12
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Writer
- Steven Spielberg · Paul Schrader · Jerry Belson · Matthew Robbins
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- Release date
- 1977 · Released
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Country of origin
- United States
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Genres
- Drama · Adventure · Thriller · Science Fiction
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art
- Français
- Rencontres du troisième type
- Italiano
- Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo
- 日本語
- 未知との遭遇
- 한국어
- 미지와의 조우
- Polski
- Bliskie spotkania trzeciego stopnia
- Português
- Encontros Imediatos do Terceiro Grau
- Português (BR)
- Contatos Imediatos do Terceiro Grau
- Themes
- flying saucer ↗
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Poster from fanart.tv.