Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Science Fiction, Drama
Columbia Pictures Corporation, EMI Films, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips Productions
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, Cary Guffey as Barry Guiler, Justin Dreyfuss as Toby Neary, Lance Henriksen as Robert, Merrill Connally as Team Leader, Amy Douglass as Implantee, Gene Dynarski as Ike, Carl Weathers as Military Policeman, Norman Bartold as Norman Bartold, F.J. O'Neil as ARP Project Member, Hal Barwood as Returnee #2 Flt. 19, Phil Dodds as ARP Musician, Matthew Robbins as Returnee #3 Flt. 19, David Anderson as Air Traffic Controller, Gene Rader as Hawker, Daniel Nunez as Federale, Chuy Franco as Federale, Luis Contreras as Federale, Galen Thompson as Special Forces, John Dennis Johnston as Special Forces, Robert Broyles as Dirty Tricks #3, Monty Jordan as Special Forces Commander / Helicopter Pilot (uncredited), Basil Hoffman as Longly (uncredited), Stephen Powers as UN Observer (uncredited), George DiCenzo as Major Benchley, Alexander Lockwood as Implantee, Roberts Blossom as Farmer, Josef Sommer as Larry Butler, Bill Thurman as Air Traffic, James Keane as Radio Telescope Team, J. Allen Hynek as Himself - Smoking Pipe at Landing Site (uncredited), Howard K. Smith as Howard K. Smith (uncredited), Adrienne Campbell as Sylvia Neary, Philip Dodds as Jean Claude, Shawn Bishop as Brad Neary, Mary Gafrey as Mrs. Harris, Michael J. Dyer as Himself, Roger Ernest as Highway Patrolman, Randy Hermann as Returnee #1 Flt. 19, Richard L. Hawkins as Air Traffic Controller, Craig Shreeve as Air Traffic, Roy E. Richards as Air East Pilot, Eumenio Blanco as Federale, Dennis McMullen as Radio Telescope Team, Cy Young as Radio Telescope Team, Tom Howard as Radio Telescope Team, Richard Stuart as Truck Dispatcher, Bob Westmoreland as Load Dispatcher, Matt Emery as Support Leader, John Ewing as Dirty Tricks #1, Kirk Raymond as Dirty Tricks #4, Keith Atkinson as Dirty Tricks #2, Bennett Wayne Dean Sr. as Scientist (uncredited)