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2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

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Directed by: 
Stanley Kubrick
Story by: 
Arthur C. Clarke
Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by: 
Stanley Kubrick
Arthur C. Clarke
Produced by: 
Stanley Kubrick
Release year: 
1968
Country: 
United States of America
United Kingdom
Runtime: 
141min
Genre: 
Adventure Film
Science Fiction
Thriller
Mystery
Music by: 
Richard Strauss
Johann Strauss II
Aram Khachaturian
György Ligeti
Sequel: 
2010
Locations: 
Clavius Base
Soundtrack: 
2001: A Space Odyssey
Subjects: 
Artificial intelligence
Tagline: 
An epic drama of adventure and exploration.
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Plot: 
"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.
Cast: 
Keir Dullea
as
David Bowman
Gary Lockwood
as
Frank Poole
William Sylvester
as
Heywood R. Floyd
Daniel Richter
as
Moon-Watcher
Douglas Rain
as
HAL 9000
Vivian Kubrick
as
Rachael "Squirt" Floyd
(
Floyd's Daughter
)
Leonard Rossiter
as
Dr. Andrei Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack
as
Elena
Robert Beatty
as
Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
Sean Sullivan
as
Dr. Bill Michaels
Frank A. Miller
as
Mission Controller
Ed Bishop
as
Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
Alan Gifford
as
Poole's Father
Arthur C. Clarke
Ann Gillis
as
Poole's Mother
Bill Weston
as
Astronaut #1
Glenn Beck
as
Astronaut #2
Edwina Carroll
as
Aries-1B Stewardess
Penny Brahms
as
Stewardess #1
Heather Downham
as
Stewardess #2
Mike Lovell
as
Astronaut #3
John Ashley
as
Ape #1
Jimmy Bell
as
Ape #2
David Charkham
as
Ape #3
Simon Davis
as
Ape #4
Jonathan Daw
as
Ape #5
Péter Delmár
as
Ape #6
Terry Duggan
as
Ape Attacked by Leopard
David Fleetwood
as
Ape #7
Danny Grover
as
Ape #8
Brian Hawley
as
Ape #9
David Hines
as
Ape #10
Tony Jackson
as
Ape #11
John Jordan
as
Ape #12
Scott MacKee
as
Ape #13
Laurence Marchant
as
Ape #14
Darryl Paes
as
Ape #15
Joe Refalo
as
Ape #16
Andy Wallace
as
Ape #17
Bob Wilyman
as
Ape #18
Richard Woods
as
Ape Killed by Moon-Watcher
Martin Amor
as
Interviewer
S. Newton Anderson
as
Young Man
Sheraton Blount
Ann Bormann
John Clifford
as
TMA-1 Site Technician #2
Julie Croft
Penny Francis
Jane Hayward
Kenneth Kendall
as
BBC-12 Announcer
Marcella Markham
Irena Marr
as
Russian Scientist #1
Krystyna Marr
as
Russian Scientist #2
Kim Neil
Jane Pearl
Penny Pearl
Kevin Scott
as
Miller
John Swindells
as
TMA-1 Site Technician #1
Burnell Tucker
as
TMA-1 Site Photographer

Reviews

Review by HALfie

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5

Despite criticisms for being boring and rather hard to comprehend, this film remains one of the most magnificent Kubrick’s masterpieces.

Based on a Arthur Clarke’s novel “The Sentinel”, the plot is composed by four episodes that tell about the encounter between primordial apes and a mysterious alien monolith, this encounter will lead the human beings straight to further steps in the evolutive scale till the creation of HAL9000, a sentient computer of last generation.

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951