---
title: 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Steven Spielberg'
released: '1977-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 134
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Science Fiction'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

1977 · PG · 134 min · Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. The film depicts the interconnected stories of Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO); Jillian Guiler (Dillon), a single mother whose three-year-old son Barry is abducted during the same UFO manifestation; and Claude Lacombe (Truffaut), a French scientist pursuing a link between recent unexplained scientific phenomena across the globe.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Matthew Robbins](https://cinepixo.com/people/matthew-robbins), [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg), [Paul Schrader](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-schrader), [Jerry Belson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-belson), [Hal Barwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-barwood), [John Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-hill)
- **Director:** [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-williams-2)
- **Producer:** [Julia Phillips](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-phillips), [Michael Phillips](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-phillips)
- **Director of Photography:** [Vilmos Zsigmond](https://cinepixo.com/people/vilmos-zsigmond)
- **Editor:** [Michael Kahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-kahn)

## Cast

- [Cary Guffey](https://cinepixo.com/people/cary-guffey)
- [Bob Balaban](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-balaban) as David Laughlin
- [Roberts Blossom](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberts-blossom)
- [Richard Dreyfuss](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-dreyfuss) as Roy Neary
- [Josef Sommer](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-sommer)
- [Warren J. Kemmerling](https://cinepixo.com/people/warren-j-kemmerling)
- [Eugene Dynarski](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-dynarski)
- [Melinda Dillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/melinda-dillon) as Jillian Guiler
- [Cy Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/cy-young)
- [John Dennis Johnston](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-dennis-johnston)
- [David Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-anderson)
- [J. Allen Hynek](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-allen-hynek)
- [Teri Garr](https://cinepixo.com/people/teri-garr) as Ronnie Neary
- [Carl Weathers](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-weathers)
- [James Keane](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-keane)

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Official site: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/closeencountersofthethirdkind/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977
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