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2010 1984 Directed by Peter Hyams

In the very near future, a small group of Americans and Russians set out on the greatest adventure of them all...to see if there is life beyond the stars.

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Languages English , Russian
Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Budget $28,000,000
Revenue $40,400,000
Release Date 6 December 1984
116 mins
Cast
Roy Scheider Dr. Heywood Floyd
John Lithgow Dr. Walter Curnow
Helen Mirren Tanya Kirbuk
Bob Balaban Dr. R. Chandra
Keir Dullea Dr. David Bowman
Douglas Rain HAL 9000 (voice)
Madolyn Smith Osborne Caroline Floyd
Savely Kramarov Dr. Vladimir Rudenko
Taliesin Jaffe Christopher Floyd
James McEachin Victor Milson
Mary Jo Deschanel Betty Fernandez
Ilya Baskin Maxim Brailovsky
Dana Elcar Dimitri Moisevitch
Oleg Rudnik Dr. Vasili Orlov
Natasha Shneider Irina Yakunina
Vladimir Skomarovsky Yuri Svetlanov
Victor Steinbach Nikolaj Ternovsky
Candice Bergen SAL 9000 (voice)
Gene McGarr Commercial Announcer
Herta Ware Jessie Bowman
Jan Tříska Alexander Kovalev
Larry Carroll Anchorman on TV
Ron Recasner Hospital Neurosurgeon
Robert Lesser Dr. Hirsch
Delana Michaels Commercial Announcer
Arthur C. Clarke Man on Park Bench (uncredited)