CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

Steven Spielberg’s first science fiction film is an absolute classic, starring Richard Dreyfuss as an ordinary man whose life gets turned upside down after a run-in with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches. Close Encounters won an Oscar for its cinematography and changed our perceptions of Devil’s Tower and mashed potatoes forever.