#82. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

- Domestic lifetime gross (price adjusted): $511,600,415

- Estimated tickets sold: 55,922,800

One of Spielberg’s earliest blockbusters interweaves sci-fi spectacle with humanistic themes. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as electric lineman Roy Neary, who’s convinced that aliens have arrived. Rarely do movies of this scale strike such a heartfelt and endearing chord.

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