Apex Mountain
Spielberg is rejected before Dreyfuss and post-New-Hollywood UFO movies receive apex status.
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- Steven Spielberg is considered and immediately rejected as being at his apex here.
- Richard Dreyfuss is placed at his apex because he won an Oscar and starred in major films during this run.
- The film is selected as the apex of UFO movies in the post-New-Hollywood era.
- UFO-related sunburns are given an apex here.
- François Truffaut is rejected as being at his apex here.
- Melinda Dillon is considered near her apex because Close Encounters and Slap Shot arrived the same year.
- Mashed potatoes and their use as construction material receive an apex nomination.
- Movie fathers losing control is rejected in favor of The Shining and Goodfellas examples.
- Muncie, Indiana is proposed as reaching its screen apex here.
- Teri Garr's apex is deferred to her Tootsie and talk-show era.
- Bad parenting in a major hit is debated against This Boy's Life and other examples.
