Close Encounters of the Third Kind
An Indiana lineman sent out on a night of mass power failures is caught in a light above a level crossing and comes home with sunburn down one side of his face and a shape he cannot stop building out of shaving foam, mashed potato and finally mud. A mother whose small son was taken from the house is drawing the same shape. Spielberg built the sets in a Mobile airship hangar and refused to make the visitors hostile.
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- alludes to ↑ Pinocchio
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