Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 film
Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Sean Fennessey
Aired May 20, 2025
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Bob Balaban
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Approx. transcript time · 01:33:11Read transcript
- Robert Blossom wins for being recognized as the farmer here and the elderly neighbor from Home Alone.
- Bob Balaban and François Truffaut are considered as alternatives.
The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award
No clear winner; Balaban’s desert exposition is a tentative nominee
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Approx. transcript time · 01:24:14Read transcript
- The panel finds no clear overacting winner and offers Bob Balaban's urgent desert explanation only as a tentative nominee.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:05:31Read transcript
- Patrick Cranshaw as Leslie Ward Cabot is the leading that-guy choice, with Malcolm Stewart as Cookie’s former lover also offered. — Mallory Rubin
- Rachael Harris, Don Davis and Larry Miller are additional that-guy candidates; Bob Balaban is considered too recognizably himself.
- The that-guy threshold is challenged: Begley, Higgins, Willard and Balaban may be unnamed familiar faces to ordinary viewers; including O’Hara is disputed after Schitt’s Creek, though the cast’s 2000 status is acknowledged.
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