Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Spielberg, Steven

ISBN 10: 0440114330 / ISBN 13: 9780440114338

Published by Dell Pub, 1977

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Synopsis:

Essef - 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."

Bibliographic Details

Title: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Publisher: Dell Pub
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good