Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Summary: Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Release Date: December 14, 1977
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: PG
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 135,189,114
International: $ 171,700,000
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