Synopsis
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND is Steven Spielberg's extraordinary film about a man named Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) who becomes obsessed with meeting extraterrestrials after encountering a UFO on an abandoned road one night. Against the wishes of his wife (Teri Garr) and children, Neary, along with another witness to the sighting (Melinda Dillon), travels to a mysterious mountain where the government has built a landing strip hoping to attract the aliens. Director François Truffaut co-stars as Claude Lacombe, one of the organizers of the project. Spielberg hoped to follow up the huge success of JAWS with a low-budget film that would be an easy shoot, but, thanks in part to the complicated special effects, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS quickly snowballed into being an expensive endeavour but a commercial and artistic success. No one who has seen the film has ever looked at a plate of mashed potatoes the same way again.
Special Features
- Steven Spielberg 30 Years of Close Encounters
- Extensive Photo Gallery
- A View From Above
- Storyboard Comparisons
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind Making of Documentary
- 1977 Featurette "Watch the Skies"
- Deleted Scenes
- Steven Spielberg 30 Years of Close Encounters
- Extensive Photo Gallery
- A View From Above
- Storyboard Comparisons
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind Making of Documentary
- 1977 Featurette "Watch the Skies"
- Deleted Scenes
