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Steven Spielberg Director | previously directed Jaws |  |
A landmark in science-fiction films, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind tells the story of Roy Neary and many other people who had close encounters with UFOs, and their insatiable obsession with finding them again.
Trivia:
Real air-traffic controllers were used for sequence with the UFO encountering the airplane.
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Reference: Jaws
The mother ship near the end of the film plays the theme music from Jaws as part of a communication device to the human spectators.
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Claude Lacombe
(About Neary & Co) They belong here more than we.
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| Hal Barwood | uncredited | |
| Jerry Belson | uncredited | |
| John Hill | uncredited | |
| Matthew Robbins | uncredited |
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| J. Patrick McNamara | Project Leader | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Warren J. Kemmerling | Wild Bill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roberts Blossom | Farmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philip Dodds | Jean Claude | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cary Guffey | Barry Guiler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name | Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| US Release | Nov. 16, 1977 |
| UK Release | March 13, 1978 |
| AUS Release | March 16, 1978 |
| Runtime | 137 |
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| Rating | PG |
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