Close Encounters of the Third Kind Page #2

Synopsis: Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgrounds are investigating the strange appearance of items in remote locations, primarily desert regions. In continuing their investigation, one of the lead scientists, a Frenchman named Claude Lacombe, incorporates the Kodály method of music education as a means of communication in their work. The response, in turn, at first baffles the researchers, until American cartographer David Laughlin deciphers the meaning of the response. In the second, electric company lineman and family man Roy Neary and single mother Jillian Guiler are among some individuals in Muncie, Indiana who experience some paranormal activity before some flashes of bright lights in the sky, which they believe to be a UFO. Roy becomes obsessed with what he saw, unlike some others, especially in some form of authority, who refuse to acknowledge their belief that it was a UFO in not wanting to appear crazy. That obsession bo
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Production: Sony Pictures Releasing
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 38 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
PG
Year:
1977
138 min
4,263 Views


...which is a lot of furry animals and

magic and a wonderful time.

-Now, let's vote.

-Golf!

All right, everybody to bed!

No way! Dad said we could finish

watching The Ten Commandments!

Roy, that movie is four hours long.

I told them

they'd watch only five commandments.

Hi, Ronnie, it's Earl.

We got a big problem.

I need your old man in the field.

Roy can't drive at night without me.

We're experiencing an overall outage!

Wait, I can't-- Honey!

Jiminy Cricket.

It's Earl on the phone.

Neary. Get into your truck

and report to line N in Tolono.

We're losing power across the grid.

Has the outage hit you yet?

Hey! Lights!

Barry!

Help! I'm lost.

You're gonna cough up a little

Tolono, right?

Cough up Tolono

on Interstate Highway 90.

A little familiar landmark

of some sort.

-Cornbread Road, south of 20.

-Cornbread?

Power must have been restored.

Couple hundred neighbors think

it's Saturday night.

Dispatch, this is 411.

Do you want me to disregard

that Tolono call?

You're in the middle of the road,

jackass!

Can you tell me where Cornbread is?

Turkey!

M-Mary-1 0 through M-Mary-1 2. Okay.

Stoppage in the single circuits

will lead you right to nowhere.

M-Mary-1 0.

Oh, sh*t!

What do you guys got out there?

I don't believe this!

My God! It's as big as a house!

Shaped like a barn.

This is absolutely crazy.

Just off the Telemark Expressway

and east toward Harper Valley.

No!

Watch out!

Oh, my God! Lady!

Are you okay? I'm sorry.

I didn't see him.

He was in the middle of the road.

Hello! Here!

What's the matter with you?

Barry, come back here!

Ice cream!

This is nuts.

Wait a minute!

What are you guys doing? Hey!

That's Ohio!

That's a quarter!

Jesus, look at those suckers.

They're glued to the road!

Honey, wake up!

Ronnie, wake up!

You're not gonna believe what I saw!

Don't! Not now.

No, listen!

I never would have believed it!

There was this--

In the cab there was this whole--

It went-- It was-- There was a red

whoosh that--

Roy.

Ike called you.

And McGovern.

They want you to call.

They couldn't reach you.

I turned the radio off.

Don't do that. The phone rang

off the hook.

It woke Sylvia up two times already.

You'd better call them.

You know those pictures in National

Geographic, the aurora borealis?

This is better than that. Come on!

Come on, Ronnie, get up.

-What's wrong?

-Nothing. I don't know.

-Get up!

-Is it an accident?

It's not an accident.

You wanted out of the house, right?

Not at 4:
00 in the morning.

Ronnie, I need you

to see something with me.

It's really important.

Okay. All right.

What about the kids?

The kids! I'll get the kids.

Sylvia, we're going on an adventure.

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Steven Allan Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. A figure of the New Hollywood era, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. more…

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