Fine TV film from 1975 stars James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons as real-life interracial couple Barney and Betty Hill, who claim they were abducted by aliens in 1961 after driving home from a vacation. Two years later, they undergo regression hypnosis to help them overcome their ordeal and get on with their lives.
Both actors are superb, really making them fully realized human beings rather than ciphers or victims. One of the first of its kind to take the subject matter seriously is also one of the best, certainly more grounded than say "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" (1977), though of course less spectacular in comparison.
Both actors are superb, really making them fully realized human beings rather than ciphers or victims. One of the first of its kind to take the subject matter seriously is also one of the best, certainly more grounded than say "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" (1977), though of course less spectacular in comparison.