• Rating:
• Genre: Mystery
• Movie Type: Psychological Sci-Fi, Space Adventure
• Themes: Space Travel, Computer Paranoia, Benign Aliens
• Director: Peter Hyams
• Main Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea
• Release Year: 1984
• Country: US
• Run Time: 114 minutes

Plot

This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001. Scheider's polyglot crew includes Americans John Lithgow and Bob Balaban (the latter a computer whiz, responsible for the notorious HAL 9000) and Russians Helen Mirren, Elya Baskin and Natasha Schneider. The reason for this international mixture is that the world is on the brink of nuclear war, and it is hoped that the space mission will assure east-west solidarity (in this respect, 2010 dates far more than 2001, given the collapse of the Iron Curtain). When the astronauts catch up with Dullea, still in orbit around Jupiter, producer/director/writer Hyams attempts to demystify the enigmatic climax of 2001. Arthur C. Clarke, author of the story upon which 2001 was based, appears in 2010 as a man on a park bench. Incidentally, the voice-over credited to Olga Mallsnerd is actually Candice Bergen. (The name Mallsnerd is a play on the name of one of the characters created by her ventriloquist father Edgar.) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Roy Scheider - Heywood Floyd
• John Lithgow - Walter Curnow
• Helen Mirren - Tanya Kirbuk
• Bob Balaban - R. Chandra
• Keir Dullea - Dave Bowman

Douglas Rain - HAL 9000; Madolyn Smith - Caroline Floyd; Dana Elcar - Dimitri Moisevitch; Taliesin Jaffe - Christopher Floyd; James McEachin - Victor Milson; Mary Jo Deschanel - Betty Fernandez; Elya Baskin - Maxim Brailovsky; Savely Kramarov - Vladimir Rudenko; Oleg Rudnick - Vasali Orlov; Vladimir Skomarovsky - Yuri Svetlanov; Victor Steinbach - Mikolai Ternovsky; Jan Triska - Alexander Kovalev; Herta Ware - Jessie Bowman; Arthur C. Clarke - Man on Park Bench; Candice Bergen - SAL 9000; Cheryl Carter - Nurse; Robert Lesser - Dr. Hirsch; Delana Michaels - Commercial Announcer; Ron Recasner - Hospital Neurosurgeon; Larry Carroll - Anchorman; Natasha Schneider - Irina Yakunina; Penny Perry

Credit

Arthur C. Clarke - Screenwriter; Arthur C. Clarke - Book Author; Jim Halty - Stunts; John Meier - Stunts; Gary Morgan - Stunts; M. James Arnett - Stunts; M. James Arnett - Stunts Coordinator; Albert Brenner - Production Designer; Richard Edlund - Special Effects; Richard Edlund - Special Effects Supervisor; Mia Goldman - Editor; Peter Hyams - Director; Peter Hyams - Cinematographer; Peter Hyams - Producer; Peter Hyams - Screenwriter; George Jenson - Art Director; Neil Machlis - Associate Producer; Neil Machlis - Production Designer; Neil Machlis - Production Manager; Syd Mead - Production Designer; Henry Millar - Special Effects Supervisor; Pat Norris - Costume Designer; Julia Phillips - Producer; David Shire - Composer (Music Score); Rick Simpson - Set Designer; William Ladd Skinner - Set Designer; Richard Strauss - Composer (Music Score); Michael Westmore - Makeup; Jonathan A. Zimbert - Associate Producer; Mic Rodgers - Stunts; Dave Stewart - Cinematographer; Penny Perry - Casting; Gene S. Cantamessa - Sound Mixer; Gene S. Cantamessa - Sound/Sound Designer; William S. Beasley - First Assistant Director; Freddie Hice - Stunts; Richard L. Anderson - Supervising Sound Editor; Michael J. Kohut - Sound/Sound Designer; James Mitchell - Editor; Mark Stetson - Visual Effects; Robert Harman - Stunts

Similar Movies

2001: A Space Odyssey; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Countdown; Silent Running; Solaris; Mission to Mars

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