| 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Keir Dullea |
Bowman
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| Gary Lockwood |
Poole
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| William Sylvester |
Dr. Heywood Floyd
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| Daniel Richter |
Moonwatcher, the Man-Ape
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| Douglas Rain |
HAL 9000 [Voice]
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| Leonard Rossiter |
Smyslov
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| Margaret Tyzack |
Elena
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| Robert Beatty |
Halvorsen
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| Sean Sullivan |
Michaels
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| Bill Weston |
Astronaut
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| Frank Miller |
Mission controller
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| Ed Bishop |
Aries-1B Lunar shuttle captain
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| Glenn Beck |
Astronaut
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| Alan Gifford |
Poole's father
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| Ann Gillis |
Poole's mother
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| Edwina Carroll |
Aries-1B stewardess
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| Penny Brahms |
Stewardess
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| Heather Downham |
Stewardess
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| Mike Lovell |
Astronaut
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| John Ashley |
Ape
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| Jimmy Bell |
Ape
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| David Charkham |
Ape
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| Simon Davis |
Ape
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| Jonathan Daw |
Ape
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| Péter Delmár |
Ape
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| Terry Duggan |
Ape attacked by leopard
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| David Fleetwood |
Ape
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| Danny Grover |
Ape
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| Brian Hawley |
Ape
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| David Hines |
Ape
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| Tony Jackson |
Ape
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| John Jordan |
Ape
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| Scott MacKee |
Ape
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| Laurence Marchant |
Ape
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| Darryl Paes |
Ape
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| Joe Refalo |
Ape
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| Andy Wallace |
Ape
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| Bob Wilyman |
Ape
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| Richard Woods |
Ape killed by Moon-Watcher
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| Martin Amor |
Interviewer
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| S. Newton Anderson |
Young Man
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| Sheraton Blount |
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| Ann Bormann |
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| John Clifford |
TMA-1 site technician #2
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| Julie Croft |
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| Penny Francis |
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| Jane Hayward |
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| Kenneth Kendall |
BBC-12 announcer
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| Vivian Kubrick |
Squirt
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| Marcella Markham |
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| Irena Marr |
Russian Scientist
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| Krystyna Marr |
Russian scientist
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| Kim Neil |
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| Jane Pearl |
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| Penny Pearl |
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| Kevin Scott |
Miller
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| John Swindells |
TMA-1 site technician #1
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| Burnell Tucker |
TMA-1 site photographer
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Adventure; Sci-Fi |
| Director |
Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick; Todd Falcon |
| Producer |
Stanley Kubrick; Victor Lyndon |
| Writer |
Arthur C. Clarke; Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick; C. Clarke |
| Musician |
Johann Strauß; Aram Khachaturyan; György Ligeti; Richard Strauss; Aram Khatchaturian |
| Studio |
Warner Bros. |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
G (General Audience) |
| Running Time |
139 |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
8.4 |
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| Plot |
| A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story "The Sentinel", Kubrick's and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss' "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," a hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st- century space craft hovering over the earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As Floyd touches the mass, however, a piercing sound emitted by the object stops his fellow investigators in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head towards Jupiter on the space ship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan Star-Gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission. With assistance from special effects expert Douglas Trumbull, Kubrick spent over two years meticulously creating the most "realistic" depictions of outer space ever seen, greatly advancing cinematic technology for a story expressing grave doubts about technology itself. Despite some initial critical reservations that it was too long and too dull, 2001 became one of the most popular films of 1968, underlining the generation gap between young moviegoers who wanted to see something new and challenging and oldsters who "didn't get it." Provocatively billed as "the ultimate trip," 2001 quickly caught on with a counterculture youth audience open to a contemplative, i.e. chemically enhanced, viewing experience of a film suggesting that the way to enlightenment was to free one's mind of the U.S. military-industrial-technological complex. — Lucia Bozzola |
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Collector\'s Edition |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 2.00:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
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012569553927 |
| Chapters |
32 |
| Release Date |
2004-02-03 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Portuguese; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
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1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby |
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