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David Spade
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
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Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers
--
or anybody who's too young to remember
The Goodbye Girl
--
may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the 'chosen') is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue,
Close Encounters
now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophizing about extraterrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner 'call.' Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary,
Close Encounters
comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed, but one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial.
--
Miles Bethany
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ITEM DETAILS
Consciousness Calibration Level:
400
Submitted by:
Joshua Fredrickson
Directed by:
Steven Spielberg
Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss
,
François Truffaut
,
Teri Garr
MPAA Rating:
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Theatrical Date:
16 November, 1977
Release Date:
29 May, 2001
Number of Media:
2
Manufacturer:
Columbia/Tristar Studios
Format:
Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Dolby
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