Close encounters of the third kind (Motion picture)
Title:
Close encounters of the third kind [videorecording] / a Columbia/EMI presentation, a Phillips production, a Steven Spielberg film ; produced by Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips ; written and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Blu-ray disc. Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977. Special features: Disc 2: "Steven Spielberg: 30 years of Close encounters" featurette; storyboard to scene comparisons; extensive photo galleries; Close encounters of the third kind making of documentary; "Watch the skies:" a 1977 featurette; deleted scenes; Blu-ray exclusive: in-movie "A view from above (editor's fact track);" a view from above: feature comparison poster.
Contents:
Disc 1: Original theatrical version (ca. 135 min.) ; Special edition (ca. 132 min.) ; Director's cut (ca. 137 min.) -- Disc 2: Special features.
Summary:
Roy Neary is a cable worker who, along with several other stunned bystanders, experience a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. After this life-changing event the inexplicable vision of a strange, mountain-like formation haunts him. He becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, much to the dismay of his wife and family. Meanwhile, bizarre occurrences are happening around the world. Government agents have close encounters of the second kind - discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial vistors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in unusual places. Roy continues to chase his vision to a remote area where he and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind - contact.
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