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While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Roy Scheider
Dr. Heywood Floyd
John Lithgow
Dr. Walter Curnow
Helen Mirren
Tanya Kirbuk
Bob Balaban
Dr. R. Chandra
Keir Dullea
Dr. David Bowman
Douglas Rain
HAL 9000 (voice)
Madolyn Smith Osborne
Caroline Floyd
Savely Kramarov
Dr. Vladimir Rudenko
Taliesin Jaffe
Christopher Floyd
James McEachin
Victor Milson
Mary Jo Deschanel
Betty Fernandez
Elya Baskin
Maxim Brailovsky
Dana Elcar
Dimitri Moisevitch
Oleg Rudnik
Dr. Vasili Orlov
Natasha Shneider
Irina Yakunina
Vladimir Skomarovsky
Yuri Svetlanov
Victor Steinbach
Nikolaj Ternovsky
Candice Bergen
SAL 9000 (voice)
Gene McGarr
Commercial Announcer
Herta Ware
Jessie Bowman
Jan Tříska
Alexander Kovalev
Larry Carroll
Anchorman on TV
Cheryl Carter
Nurse
Ron Recasner
Hospital Neurosurgeon
Robert Lesser
Dr. Hirsch
Delana Michaels
Commercial Announcer
Arthur C. Clarke
Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
Director, Screenplay
Peter Hyams
Novel
Arthur C. Clarke
April 8, 2021
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_**Another trip to Jupiter to find answers**_
After the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. Several years later, the Soviets send the spacecraft Leonov & crew to Jupiter along with three Americans, including Floyd, to help investigate Discovery and the malfunction of the vessel's sentient computer, HAL 9000. Keir Dullea returns as the missing astronaut David Bowman while Helen Mirren plays the captain of the Leonov. Bob Balaban and John Lithgow also appear as the other two American astronauts.
"2010: The Year We Make Contact" (1984) is realistic science-fiction that’s less artsy and more dramatically compelling compared to its predecessor, “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968). That doesn’t make it better, of course, just different. “2001” raised questions while this one provides answers, which some people inevitably won’t like. The questions include: Why did HAL malfunction? What was the real reason for Discovery's original mission, unknown to Floyd? What happened to Bowman? What is the purpose of the colossal monolith orbiting Jupiter?
Both films compliment and counterbalance each other. This one’s more of a straightforward space adventure in the near future. Unlike Star Wars, which is space fantasy, “2010” is space-oriented adult science-fiction. Star Trek is too, but “2010” is far more realistic, which I appreciate. In other words, don’t expect any Klingons or spacecraft dogfights. This is more along the lines of “Mission to Mars” (2000) and “The Martian” (2015).
The film runs 1 hours, 56 minutes.
GRADE: B
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$28,000,000.00
Revenue:
$40,400,000.00