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0043396126497. New condition. DVD. Run time: 135 mins. Language: English. Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975) his first major box-office success with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who while sent out on emergency repairs witnesses an unidentified flying object and even has a sunburn from its bright lights to prove it. Neary s wife and children are at first skeptical then concerned and eventually fearful as Roy refuses to accept a logical explanation for what he saw and is prepared to give up his job his home and his family to pursue the truth about UFOs. Neary s obsession eventually puts him in contact with others who ve had close encounters with alien spacecraft including Jillian (Melinda Dillon) a single mother whose son disappeared during her UFO experience and Claude Lacombe (celebrated French filmmaker François Truffaut) a French researcher who