Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977

Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Runtime: 138 minutes

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Spokesman:
Now, there are all kinds of ideas that would be fun to believe in: mental telepathy, time travel, immortality, even Santa Claus. Now I know it's no fun to go home and say: "Guess what happened! I was in a shopping center. There was this tremendously bright light, and I rushed outside, and it was an airplane."

Roy:
Excuse me, sir. I didn't want to see this.

Spokesman:
I sure wish I had. You know, for fifteen years I've been looking for these damn silly lights in the night sky. I've never found any. I'd like to, because I believe in life elsewhere.

Audience member:
Why don't you guys just admit that the Air Force is conducting secret tests in the foothills area?

Spokesman:
It would be easy to say yes to that, but I'm not going to mislead you. This is not the case. To tell you the truth, I don't know what you saw.

Roy:
You can't fool us by agreeing with us.

Another witness:
I saw Bigfoot once. 1951, back in Sequoia National Park. Had a foot on him thirty-seven inches heel to toe. It made a sound I would not want to hear twice in my life.

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