Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The UFO movie was taken to epic new heights in Steven Spielberg's first of several alien visitation stories. With revolutionary special visual effects by Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey), John Williams’ unforgettable score, and winning performances by Richard Dreyfuss, Garr, Dillon, Bob Balaban, and legendary film director Truffaut, Close Encounters quickly joined Spielberg’s previous picture, the unprecedentedly successful Jaws, as one of the most popular films of all-time upon its release in late 1977.

In the night skies over Indiana, working-class power repairman Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft while out on a repair call. He feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

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