Close encounters of the third kind (Motion picture)
Title:
Close encounters of the third kind [videorecording] / Columbia/EMI presentation, a Phillips production, a Stephen Spielberg film ; produced by Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips ; written and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
30th anniversary ultimate ed.
Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
3 videodiscs (ca. 404 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (1 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)
Steven Spielberg. Close encounters of the third kind making of documentary. Watch the skies.
Notes:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977. Special features: Steven Spielberg: 30 years of Close encounters; "Close encounters of the third kind making of" documentary; 1977 featurette "Watch the skies;" a view from above: feature comparison poster. Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut.
Contents:
Disc one: Original theatrical version (ca. 135 min.) -- Disc two: Special ed. (ca. 132 min.) -- Disc three: Director's cut (ca. 137 min.).
Summary:
Roy Neary is a cable worker who, along with several others, become stunned bystanders who have experienced a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UFOs soar 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. Meanwhile, bizarre occurrences are happening around the world. Government agents have close encounters of a second kind - discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors 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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