Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Release Date: Friday, September 1, 2017 Nationwide

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

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

PG Action 2 hrs, 14 m

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

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Plot
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.
Cited as official plot version from sonypictures.com
Action Drama Sci-Fi Re-Release

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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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MPA Rating
PG Parental Guidance Suggested for some intense sci-fi action, mild language and thematic elements.
Runtime
2 hrs, 14 m
Tagline
This Means Something
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Language
English

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

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, September 1, 2017 . There were 13 other movies released on the same date, including Little Evil, I Do…Until I Don't and Goon: Last of the Enforcers. Additional information: 40th Anniversary Re-Release.



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