Viewing: March 21,2025
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut
Awards: Osacr - Best Cinematography, Best Director (nom), Best Visual Effects (nom)
Join us Friday, March 21st at 7:00 p.m. for an out-of-this-world addition to our Classics & Cocktails series as we present a screening of Steven Spielberg’s magnificent sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind!
The featured cocktail: “The Ecto Sour”
Plus, we’ll have a great selection of Jackie O’s beer, West End CiderHouse ciders, wine, and more! We’ll also have trivia and prizes.
Admission $8
About the film
The year is 1977, and French scientists are investigating the strange reappearance of aircraft and ships that had vanished in previous decades. Meanwhile, blue-collar utility work Roy Neary is sent out on an emergency call to restore power to his rural Indiana territory and has a life-changing encounter with a UFO that leaves a mark both on his psyche and half his face. Afterwards, Roy’s behavior grows more erratic, with an increasing obsession with UFO-logy and unshakable visions of a mysterious shape, until his wife leaves with the kids in exasperation. Eventually, Roy discovers that the shape is actually a terrestrial object – The Devil’s Tower in Wyoming – and he becomes convinced that this geographical location holds the key to the bizarre events that he has been witness to. Joining up with a mother whose child has vanished, the two travel to the natural monument and have a once-in-a-lifetime encounter in one of the most spectacular moments in cinema history.
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