Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Moderate
The story
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.
- jupiter
- super computer
- space travel
- space mission
- ghost ship
- sequel
- space
- astronaut
- monolith
- space opera
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Directed
- Peter Hyams
- Written
- Peter Hyams
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 1,101 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
19682001: A Space Odyssey
Where it starts.
2010
1984 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
