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Alabama Spotlight: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

We are not alone.

Steven Spielberg

Part of our Alabama Film Spotlight Weekend. Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

Credits

Director(s):

Steven Spielberg

Producer(s):

Michael Phillips

Writer(s):

Steven Spielberg

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara

Sound:

Richard Oswald

Composer(s):

John Williams