Close Encounters of the Third Kind

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss

as Roy Neary

François Truffaut

as Claude Lacombe

Teri Garr

as Ronnie Neary

Melinda Dillon

as Jillian Guiler

Bob Balaban

as David Laughlin

J. Patrick McNamara

as Project Leader

Warren J. Kemmerling

as Wild Bill

Roberts Blossom

as Farmer

Phil Dodds

as ARP Musician

Cary Guffey

as Barry Guiler

Reviews

Ian Beale

**Do the mashed potato!** Roy Neely is a gas repair man who has a close encounter with an alien craft and begins having strange visions of mashed potatoes, shaving cream and mud mountains. This all leads to Needy's marriage breaking up and he sets out to find the truth about his mashed potato vis...

CinemaSerf

I always remember as a child hoping/praying that if extra terrestrials ever did come to visit us, that they wouldn't arrive in America. Think "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) or most other sci-fi stories: the first things they would see when they opened their door would be guns, tanks, missile...

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