Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Purchase your tickets at Belcourt or online for the showtime below.
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 12 PM
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Dir. Steven Spielberg | USA | 1977 | 138 min. | PG | 4K DCP
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I know Spielberg has a vastly immense filmography over a five-decade career but this is possibly one of his most under-rated films.

Power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft while out on a call. Recurring visions of a mountain — played by the Devils Tower of Wyoming — fuel an increasing obsession that drives him to an emotional breaking point. Desperate to understand what he has experienced, he finds an ally in Jillian, a single mother who believes her son has been abducted by the aliens. Meanwhile an international group of scientists led by French expert Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) search for a breakthrough in human-alien communication. Their collective quest culminates in a remote Wyoming rendezvous and an event of unequaled importance in all of human history.

If folks are up for it, we can chat about the movie afterwards over a bite nearby.
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