Close Encounters of the Third Kind Movie

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Roy Neary sets out to investigate a mysterious power outage and experiences a life-changing “close encounter.”

Who's Involved:

Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Bob Balaban, Lance Henriksen, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut

Release Date:

Friday, September 1, 2017 Nationwide

PG   PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED MPA
some intense sci-fi action, mild language and thematic elements.
Runtime: 2 hrs, 14 m
Language: English

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Plot: What's the story about?

Electrical lineman Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountain-like image and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, much to the dismay of his family. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have close encounters of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier, only to suddenly reappear in the Sonora and Gobi Desert. Roy and the agents then follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.

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Who stars in Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Cast List

... Roy Neary

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... Ronnie Neary

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... Jillian Guiler

 

... Claude Lacombe

 

... David Laughlin

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... Robert

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Who's making Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Crew List

A look at the Close Encounters of the Third Kind behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Steven Spielberg last directed The Fabelmans and Jaws. The film's writer Steven Spielberg last wrote The Fabelmans and Eagle Eye.

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Production: What we know about Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Key Facts

  1. The film will be re-released in select theaters for one week on Sept. 1 (7/4/17).

Filming Timeline

  1. 2017 - July: The film was set to Completed  status.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Release Date: When was the film released?

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a Nationwide release in 2017 on Friday, September 1, 2017. There were 13 other movies released on the same date, including Unlocked, Fallen and Marvel's Inhumans [TV]. Additional information: 40th Anniversary Re-Release.

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