Close Encounters of the Spud Kind

Close Encounters of the Spud Kind. (Publicity photo courtesy Gnomon Chronicles Film Board.

Close Encounters of the Spud Kind (CEOTSK) is a 1977 American supernatural geology film about an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher (Richard Dreyfuss) whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.

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