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Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. The film depicts the interconnected stories of Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana whose life changes…
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TTTA extracted 93 structured relationships around Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Examples in this analysis include Close Encounters of the Third Kind → Box office → $306.9 million and Close Encounters of the Third Kind → Budget → $19.4 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Box office | $306.9 million | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Budget | $19.4 million | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Country | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Directed by | Steven Spielberg | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Distributed by | Columbia Pictures | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Edited by | Michael Kahn | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Language | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Music by | John Williams | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Produced by | Julia Phillips | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Produced by | Michael Phillips | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Production companies | Columbia Pictures | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Production companies | EMI Films | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Release date | November 16, 1977 (1977-11-16) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Running time | 135 minutes (Theatrical version) 132 minutes (Special Edition) 137 minutes (Director's Cut) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Starring | Richard Dreyfuss | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Starring | Teri Garr | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Starring | Melinda Dillon | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Starring | François Truffaut | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Written by | Steven Spielberg | 1.00 | infobox |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | is a | 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg | 0.90 | text |
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For Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Production. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Close Encounters of the Third Kind to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Themes, Legacy, Music & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Close Encounters of the Third Kind · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout