Storyline
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Directors
Cast
Matthew Robbins, Melinda Dillon, Lance Henriksen, Randy Hermann, Richard Dreyfuss, Josef Sommer, Roberts Blossom, Bob Balaban, Teri Garr, John Dennis Johnston, Robert Broyles, Gene Dynarski, Alexander Lockwood, Amy Douglass, Basil Hoffman, Carl Weathers, George DiCenzo, Monty Jordan, François Truffaut, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren J. Kemmerling, Cary Guffey, Justin Dreyfuss, Merrill Connally, Norman Bartold, F.J. O'Neil, Hal Barwood, Phil Dodds, David Anderson, Gene Rader, Daniel Nunez, Chuy Franco, Luis Contreras, Galen Thompson, Stephen Powers, Bill Thurman, James Keane, J. Allen Hynek, Howard K. Smith, Adrienne Campbell, Philip Dodds, Shawn Bishop, Mary Gafrey, Michael J. Dyer, Roger Ernest, Richard L. Hawkins, Craig Shreeve, Roy E. Richards, Eumenio Blanco, Dennis McMullen, Cy Young, Tom Howard, Richard Stuart, Bob Westmoreland, Matt Emery, John Ewing, Kirk Raymond, Keith Atkinson, Bennett Wayne Dean Sr.
Trailer
Reviews
100
It's one of the great moviegoing experiences.
100
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is unquestionably a great movie.
100
Steven Spielberg proves decisively that a special effects-dependent film need not be cold, mechanistic, or simpleminded.
100
The visuals here...are never less than stunning in their impact, yet always seem well within the realm of possibility. It is also to Spielberg's credit, however, that despite all of this visual opulence, his actors are never dwarfed.
90
Steven Spielberg's giant, spectacular Close Encounters of the Third Kind...is the best—the most elaborate—1950's science fiction movie ever made, a work that borrows its narrative shape and its concerns from those earlier films, but enhances them with what looks like the latest developments in movie and space technology.
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