Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is director Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing movie about Earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man. Richard Dreyfuss is Roy Neary, a man who, after encountering an unexplainable phenomenon one night, becomes obsessed with discovering more, to the dismay of his wife (Teri Garr) and family. Legendary French filmmaker François Truffaut plays the head of a government agency hoping to attract the aliens to an isolated mountaintop in this unforgettable sci-fi thriller.
Directed by
Steven Spielberg
Written by
Hal Barwood (uncredited); Jerry Belson (uncredited); John Hill (uncredited); Matthew Robbins (uncredited); Steven Spielberg (written by).
Starring
Richard Dreyfuss (Roy Neary); François Truffaut (Claude Lacombe); Teri Garr (Ronnie Neary); Melinda Dillon (Gillian Guiler); Bob Balaban (David Laughlin); J. Patrick McNamara (Project Leader); Warren J. Kemmerling (Wild Bill (as Warren Kemmerling)); Roberts Blossom (Farmer); Philip Dodds (Jean Claude); Cary Guffey (Barry Guiler); Shawn Bishop (Brad Neary); Adrienne Campbell (Sylvia Neary); Justin Dreyfuss (Toby Neary); Lance Henriksen (Robert); Merrill Connally (Team Leader). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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