Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgrounds are investigating the strange appearance of items in remote locations, primarily desert ...

Richard Dreyfuss lobbied to star in Close Encounters after hearing Spielberg's ideas for the movie on the set of Jaws. There's an undeniable sense of childlike wonder captured in Spielberg's ...

Young Cary Guffey as Barry Guiler about to get abducted by aliens in 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind ©Columbia Pictures/courtesy MovieStillsDB.com "The night sky was such a romantic ...