1977 Steven Spielberg film starring Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary, a regular American Joe who becomes driven to find the meaning behind recurring visions he has after a close encounter with an alien spacecraft.

The Good:
communicating with synthesizers
late seventies special effects
creepy aliens
even creepier backwoods folk watching for U.F.O.'s

The Bad:
also stars McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Baskin-Robbins.
"When You Wish Upon A Star"

American Egotistical Bullshit Rating: mild to none
- acknowledged other countries
- a main character spoke mostly French
- decision-makers were UN rather than US
but
- the aliens landed in the States
- the aliens were greeted by a team of mostly Americans