…Close Encounters is a truly heartbreaking story about families in the cratered aftermath of the so-called “sexual revolution,” featuring Dreyfus’ Roy, an overgrown kid who somehow seems to have become a husband and father, and Melinda Dillon’s anxious single mother.
Roy’s late night alien encounter stretches his family life to a breaking point as he becomes obsessed with an implanted memory that his wife and kids don’t share, while that same memory provides the only hope for Dillon’s character after the aliens “borrow” her son. If that weren’t enough, they have to contend with a government conspiracy to cover up the alien first contact; “the Man,” it seems, is willing to do almost anything to prevent them from achieving peace of mind and self-realization.
It’s all very 1970s.
