Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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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.

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Credits

producer

Clark L. Paylow

Julia Phillips

Michael Phillips

visual effects

Carlo Rambaldi

Duration

02:15:00

Production places

United States of America

Production dates

1977 1977

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-840

Language

English

Collected

396 times

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United States of America, 1977