Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Released Date
December 14, 1977
Distributor
Columbia Pictures
Genre
Fantasy
Rating
PG
Budget
$20,000,000
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$135,189,114 + $171,700,000 = $306,889,114
$135,189,114 + $171,700,000 = $306,889,114
About Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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.
About
The Steven Spielberg film follows Roy Neary, a middle-class man who lives in rural Indiana, after his mysterious encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO).
Trivia
The humans and aliens communicate by using music. The movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards.