Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.347
4381 reviews
Sci-Fi/Drama
2h 17m
1977
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.
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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.
- DirectorSteven Spielberg
- Release14 December 1977
- Genre
- Duration2h 17m
- Budget$20,000,000
- Revenue$306,889,114
- Rate7.3474381 reviews
- Productions
Julia/Michael Phillips Productions, Columbia Pictures, EMI Films
Cast
Richard Dreyfuss
Roy Neary
François Truffaut
Claude Lacombe
Teri Garr
Ronnie Neary
Melinda Dillon
Jillian Guiler
Bob Balaban
David Laughlin
J. Patrick McNamara
Project Leader
Warren J. Kemmerling
Wild Bill
Roberts Blossom
Farmer
Cary Guffey
Barry Guiler
Lance Henriksen
Robert
Gene Dynarski
Ike
Carl Weathers
Military Policeman
Norman Bartold
Norman Bartold
F.J. O'Neil
ARP Project Member
Matthew Robbins
Returnee #3 Flt. 19
Luis Contreras
Federale
John Dennis Johnston
Special Forces
George DiCenzo
Major Benchley
Alexander Lockwood
Implantee
Josef Sommer
Larry Butler
Bill Thurman
Air Traffic
James Keane
Radio Telescope Team
Basil Hoffman
Longly (uncredited)
J. Allen Hynek
Man Smoking Pipe at Landing Site (uncredited)
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