2001: A Space Odyssey
| Release Date: | Apr 1968 |
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| Genre: | Sci-Fi / Adventure |
| Awards: | Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations |
| Cast: | Keir Dullea (Dr. Dave Bowman), Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood R. Floyd), Daniel Richter (Moon-Watcher), Leonard Rossiter (Dr. Andrei Smyslov), Margaret Tyzack (Elena), Robert Beatty (Dr. Ralph Halvorsen), Sean Sullivan (Dr. Bill Michaels), Douglas Rain (HAL 9000), Frank Miller (Mission Controller), Bill Weston (Astronaut), Ed Bishop (Aries-1B Lunar shuttle captain), Glenn Beck (Astronaut), Alan Gifford (Poole's father), Ann Gillis (Poole's mother), Edwina Carroll (Aries-1B stewardess), Penny Brahms (Stewardess), Heather Downham (Stewardess), Mike Lovell (Astronaut), John Ashley (Ape), Jimmy Bell (Ape), David Charkham (Ape), Simon Davis (Ape), Jonathan Daw (Ape), Péter Delmár (Ape), Terry Duggan (Ape attacked by leopard), David Fleetwood (Ape), Danny Grover (Ape), Brian Hawley (Ape), David Hines (Ape), Tony Jackson (Ape), John Jordan (Ape), Scott MacKee (Ape), Laurence Marchant (Ape), Darryl Paes (Ape), Joe Refalo (Ape), Andy Wallace (Ape), Bob Wilyman (Ape), Richard Woods (Ape killed by Moon-Watcher (as...), Martin Amor (Interviewer (uncredited)), S. Newton Anderson (Young Man (uncredited)), Sheraton Blount ((uncredited)), Ann Bormann ((uncredited)), John Clifford (TMA-1 Site Technician #2 (uncredited)), Julie Croft ((uncredited)), Penny Francis ((uncredited)), Jane Hayward ((uncredited)), Kenneth Kendall (BBC-12 Announcer (uncredited)), Vivian Kubrick (Squirt - Floyd's Daughter (uncredited)), Marcella Markham ((uncredited)), Irena Marr (Russian Scientist), Krystyna Marr (Russian Scientist), Kim Neil ((uncredited)), Jane Pearl ((uncredited)), Penny Pearl ((uncredited)), Kevin Scott (Miller), John Swindells (TMA-1 Site Technician #1 (uncredited)), Burnell Tucker (TMA-1 Site Photographer (uncredited)) |
2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon's surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.