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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

1977, Movie, PG, 135 mins

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A humanistic, postmodern masterpiece in which Steven Spielberg proves decisively that a special effects-dependent film need not be cold, mechanistic or simpleminded. Incorporating much of movie and TV history into its revisionist project — Spielberg evokes eveyone from Hitchcock, Ford, Disney and, quite literally, Truffaut — the film presents mankind's first alien contact with near-relgious awe, as opposed to the traditional Cold War paranoia. With Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon. Read the complete review for Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Year: 1977
Rated PG

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Cast
Richard Dreyfuss: Roy Neary
Francois Truffaut: Claude Lacombe
Teri Garr: Ronnie Neary
Melinda Dillon: Jillian Guiler
Cary Guffey: Barry Guiler
Bob Balaban: Interpreter Laughlin

 

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