Storyline
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Directors
Cast
Burnell Tucker, Vivian Kubrick, Glenn Beck, Robert Beatty, Margaret Tyzack, Keir Dullea, Kevin Scott, Sean Sullivan, David Charkham, Alan Gifford, Ann Gillis, Bill Weston, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Frank Miller, Ed Bishop, Edwina Carroll, Heather Downham, Penny Brahms, Maggie d'Abo, Chela Matthison, Judy Kiern, Kenneth Kendall, Martin Amor, Mike Lovell, John Ashley, Jimmy Bell, Simon Davis, Jonathan Daw, Péter Delmár, Terry Duggan, David Fleetwood, Danny Grover, Brian Hawley, David Hines, Tony Jackson, John Jordan, Scott MacKee, Laurence Marchant, Darryl Paes, Joe Refalo, Andy Wallace, Bob Wilyman, Richard Woods, S. Newton Anderson, Sheraton Blount, Ann Bormann, Julie Croft, Penny Francis, Marcella Markham, Irena Marr, Krystyna Marr, Kim Neil, Jane Pearl, Penny Pearl, John Swindells, John Clifford
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Reviews
100
This is the way this ground-breaking monument was meant to be seen: in mind-boggling 70mm.
100
Chicago Reader
Its special effects are used so seamlessly as part of an overall artistic strategy that, as critic Annette Michelson has pointed out, they don't even register as such, and thus are almost impossible to trivialize, a feat unmatched in movies.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Only a few films are transcendent, and work upon our minds and imaginations like music or prayer or a vast belittling landscape...Alone among science-fiction movies, 2001 is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.
100
Chicago Tribune
A masterpiece that can still leave you dizzy with wonder. As much as any movie ever made, this visionary science-fiction tale of space travel and first contact with extraterrestrial life is a spellbinding experience.
100
Empire
Its faults - sketchy narrative, overblown abstraction - are counterbalanced by its gripping engagement between man and machine, and its rhapsodic wonder at heaven and earth and the infinite beyond.
