The sense of desperation and anguish that a mother feels after her
child has been abducted by aliens is indescribable. I mean, we've all
been there, right? 
Of course, when I say "been there," what I really mean is that we've all probably seen "Close Encounters of the Third Kind,"
the 1977 Steven Spielberg blockbuster in which a single mom strives to
get her son back after he disappears in a massive UFO. That mom was
played by Melinda Dillon,
an actress who would later secure her place in the Movie Mother Hall of
Fame by raising Ralphie and Randy in "A Christmas Story." And young
Barry, the wide-eyed little boy so entranced by the multicolored lights
of a spaceship? He was played by Cary Guffey, which naturally raises the question ... whatever happened to him?
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