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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8.4
Ratings: 8.4/10 from 202,149 users
Metascore:
86/100
Reviews: 1,443 user | 196 critic | 14 from Metacritic.com
Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest. Director:Stanley Kubrick |
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Cast
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Margaret Tyzack | ... | |
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Robert Beatty | ... | |
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Sean Sullivan | ... | |
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Douglas Rain | ... |
HAL 9000
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Frank Miller | ... |
Mission Controller
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Bill Weston | ... | |
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Ed Bishop | ... |
Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
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Glenn Beck | ... | |
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Alan Gifford | ... | |
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Ann Gillis | ... | |
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Storyline
"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. Written by Larry Cousins
Plot Summary | Plot SynopsisTaglines:
Man's colony on the Moon... a whole new generation has been born and is living there... a quarter-million miles from Earth. See more »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
2001: Odisea del espacio See more »Box Office
Budget:
$10,500,000 (estimated)Gross:
$190,700,000 (Worldwide) (31 December 1984)Company Credits
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Runtime:
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | DTS 70 mm (2001 re-release)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1
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with the story beginning right after the title. Although by the 1990s it
had become quite common for major films to not have opening credits, it was
still unusual in 1968. See more »
Music by György Ligeti
Performed by the Stuttgart Schola Cantorum
Conducted by Clytus Gottwald See more »
Did You Know?
Trivia
The animal used in the "Dawn of Man" sequence, the one that looks like a black pig with a trunk, is a tapir. See more »Goofs
Continuity: When the spaceship is docking at the station, the ship and the station are rotating at the same speed as can be seen in the scenes from the ship's point of view. But in the exterior, zoomed out shot of both of them, they are clearly rotating at radically-different speeds. See more »Crazy Credits
No opening credits for actors, writers, producer, director, etc. are shown,with the story beginning right after the title. Although by the 1990s it
had become quite common for major films to not have opening credits, it was
still unusual in 1968. See more »
Soundtracks
"Lux Aeterna"Music by György Ligeti
Performed by the Stuttgart Schola Cantorum
Conducted by Clytus Gottwald See more »
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