Which 1977 film ends with a sequence featuring music and sign language and includes Richard Dreyfuss boarding a ship?

• A. Jaws
• B. ET
• C. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• D. Star Wars

Answer: (C)

The important idea here is recognizing a film whose ending uses a musical form of communication and a moment where the human lead is invited aboard the alien ship. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the story builds around a distinctive musical language—the famous five-note motif—that characters use to communicate with the aliens. The climax centers on a mothership arriving, and Roy Neary, played by Richard Dreyfuss, joins others as they are invited to board the ship. That combination of music-driven contact and the boarding sequence is the defining moment of this film’s ending. The other options don’t fit that ending: Jaws isn’t about musical communication or a boarding sequence of the lead; ET ends with the alien returning home rather than the human boarding a ship; Star Wars, though from around the same era, doesn’t feature this musical-language finale or Dreyfuss in the lead role.