Close Encounters of the Third Kind
In the Sonoran Desert, French scientist Claude Lacombe and his American interpreter, cartographer David Laughlin, along with other government scientific researchers, discover Flight 19, a squadron of Grumman TBM Avengers that went missing more than 30 years earlier. The planes are intact and operational, but there is no sign of the pilots. An old man who witnessed the event claimed "the sun came out at night, and sang to him." They also find a lost cargo ship in the Gobi Desert named SS Cotopaxi. At an air traffic control center in Indianapolis, a controller listens as two airline flights narrowly avoid a mid-air collision with an unidentified flying object (UFO), which neither pilot chooses to report, even when invited to do so. In Muncie, Indiana, 3-year-old Barry Guiler is awakened in the night when his toys start operating on their own. Fascinated, he gets out of bed and discovers something or someone (off-screen) in the kitchen. He runs outside, forcing his mother, Jillian, to chase after him.
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MPAA Rating: | PG |
Genre: | Drama, Sci Fi |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Michael Phillips, Clark L. Paylow, Julia Phillips |
Directed By: | Steven Spielberg |
Written By: | Jerry Belson, Hal Barwood, John Hill, Matthew Robbins, Steven Spielberg |
Cast: | Gene Rader, Adrienne Campbell, Shay McLean, Bill Thurman, Murray Pollack, Roberts Blossom, Robert Broyles, Josef Sommer, F.J. O'Neil, Bennett Wayne Dean Sr., Carl Weathers, J. Patrick McNamara, Randy Hermann, George DiCenzo, Melinda Dillon, Hal Barwood, Basil Hoffman, Chuy Franco, Luis Contreras, Amy Douglass, James Keane, Justin Dreyfuss, Bob Westmoreland, Teri Garr, Richard Dreyfuss, Cary Guffey, John Dennis Johnston, Gene Dynarski, David Anderson, Roger Ernest, Bob Balaban, Monty Jordan, Howard K. Smith, Richard L. Hawkins, Merrill Connally, Philip Dodds, Eumenio Blanco, Norman Bartold, Dennis McMullen, François Truffaut, Galen Thompson, Matthew Robbins, Richard Stuart, Shawn Bishop, Lance Henriksen, Matt Emery, Mary Gafrey, Warren J. Kemmerling, Alexander Lockwood, Daniel NúñEz, Keith Atkinson, Stephen Powers, Monty O'Grady |
In Theaters: | Dec 25, 1977 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 15 minutes |
Production: | Columbia Pictures Corporation, EMI Films, EMI Films |
Box Office: | $132,088,635 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |