Close Encounters of the Third Kind Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Roy Neary sets out to investigate a mysterious power outage and experiences a life-changing “close encounter.”

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Electrical lineman Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountain-like image and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, much to the dismay of his family. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have close encounters of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier, only to suddenly reappear in the Sonora and Gobi Desert. Roy and the agents then follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.

Cited as official plot version from sonypictures.com

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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  Richard Dreyfuss

  ... Roy Neary

  Into the Deep, Red

• T
  Teri Garr

  ... Ronnie Neary

  Expired, Unaccompanied Minors

• M
  Melinda Dillon

  ... Jillian Guiler

• F
  François Truffaut

  ... Claude Lacombe

• B
  Bob Balaban

  ... David Laughlin

  Isle of Dogs, Mascots

• L
  Lance Henriksen

  ... Robert

  Altered Reality, On Fire

Crew Behind the Film

The Close Encounters of the Third Kind behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Steven Spielberg last directed The Fabelmans and Jaws. The film's writer Steven Spielberg last wrote The Fabelmans and Eagle Eye.

Director

Steven Spielberg

Screenwriter

Steven Spielberg

Production Details

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Key Facts

• The film will be re-released in select theaters for one week on Sept. 1 (7/4/17).

Production Updates for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Jul 2017

Completed

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