| Release Date: | Dec 1984 |
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| Genres: | Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Adventure |
| Awards: | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 3 nominations |
| Cast: | Roy Scheider (Dr. Heywood Floyd), John Lithgow (Dr. Walter Curnow), Helen Mirren (Tanya Kirbuk), Bob Balaban (Dr. R. Chandra), Keir Dullea (Dave Bowman), Douglas Rain (HAL 9000), Madolyn Smith Osborne (Caroline Floyd), Dana Elcar (Dimitri Moisevitch), Taliesin Jaffe (Christopher Floyd), James McEachin (Victor Milson), Mary Jo Deschanel (Betty Fernandez, Bowman's Wife), Elya Baskin (Maxim Brajlovsky), Saveli Kramarov (Dr. Vladimir Rudenko (as Savely...), Oleg Rudnik (Dr. Vasili Orlov), Natasha Shneider (Irina Yakunina), Vladimir Skomarovsky (Yuri Svetlanov), Victor Steinbach (Mikolaj Ternovsky), Jan Triska (Alexander Kovalev), Larry Carroll (Anchorman on TV), Herta Ware (Jessie Bowman), Cheryl Carter (Nurse), Ron Recasner (Hospital Neurosurgeon), Robert Lesser (Dr. Hirsch), Candice Bergen (SAL 9000), Delana Michaels (Commercial Announcer), Gene McGarr (Commercial Announcer), Arthur C. Clarke (Man on Park Bench (uncredited)) |
In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman's last transmission... "My God, it's full of stars..."
