Name: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Science Fiction, Drama
Released: 1977-12-14
Duration: 137 min
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban

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