Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Space, Futuristic, Psychodrama, Cult Classic, Marriage, Investigation
Tagline: We are not alone.
Plot: A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront the enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of the year 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov are on course to rendezvous with still-orbiting Discovery. What they don't know is that they are equally on a course for an uncharted realm of human destiny. And that their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000. In this awesome film based on Arthur C. Clarke's sequel novel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, filmmaker Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, Outland) crafts an absorbing spellbinder that builds on its landmark movie predecessor yet is captivating in its own right. This year is 2010. Time to discover we are not alone Peter Hyams' sequel to Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking "2001: A Space Odyssey" opens nine years later as an American team led by space agent Heywood Floyd sets out for Jupiter to find out what happened on the 'Discovery' space ship's disastrous voyage. In order to accomplish their mission, the Americans join forces with a group of Soviet astronauts, even though on earth, the governments of the two super-powers are readying themselves for all-out nuclear war. The two crews try to overcome their differences as they seek answers to the central questions raised in "2001": What is the
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 | Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey, Trapped in Space, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures |
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 | Helen Mirren
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Gosford Park, Excalibur |
 | Bob Balaban
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghost World, Gosford Park |
 | | Keir Dullea
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Black Christmas | | | |
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David Shire
All the President's Men, The Conversation, Saturday Night Fever |
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