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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Release Date	November 16, 1977
Genre	Alien Contact
Director	Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter	Steven Spielberg
Stars	Richard Dreyfuss Teri Garr François Truffaut
Studio	Columbia Pictures

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film won an Academy Award for its cinematography and also garnered seven other nominations including nominations for its visual effects, directing, and art direction. Richard Dreyfuss stars as alien abductee, Roy Neary. Neary and several other individuals are inexplicably drawn to a mountain where the government believes Aliens intend to land and attempt to communicate.

Also See

• Paranormal Terminology

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