2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey

 Cast: Keir Dullea
Keir Dullea
, Gary Lockwood
Gary Lockwood
, William Sylvester
William Sylvester
, Daniel Richter
Daniel Richter
, Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter
2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey

 Cast: Keir Dullea
Keir Dullea
, Gary Lockwood
Gary Lockwood
, William Sylvester
William Sylvester
, Daniel Richter
Daniel Richter
, Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter

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Overview

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 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's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. 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 the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head toward Jupiter on the spaceship 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.

Product Details

Release Date: 03/29/2011
UPC: 0883929187522
Original Release: 1968
Rating: G
Source: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 2:28:00
Sales rank: 440

Special Features

Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood ; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Keir Dullea David Bowman
Gary Lockwood Frank Poole
William Sylvester Dr. Floyd
Daniel Richter Moonwatcher
Leonard Rossiter Smyslov
Robert Beatty Halvorsen
Margaret Tyzack Elena
Sean Sullivan Michaels
Douglas Rain HAL
Richard Wood Actor
Brian Hawley Actor
Bob Wilyman Actor
Danny Grover Actor
Andy Wallace Actor
David Fleetwood Actor
Joe Refalo Actor
Terry Duggan Actor
Darryl Paes Actor
Peter Delmar Actor
Laurence Marchant Actor
Jonathan Daw Actor
Scott MacKee Actor
Simon Davis Actor
John Jordan Actor
David Charkham Actor
Tony Jackson Actor
Jimmy Bell Actor
David Hines Ape
Heather Downham Actor
Ann Gillis Actor
Bill Weston Actor
Ed Bishop Lunar shuttle captain
Mike Lovell Actor
Glenn Beck Actor
John Ashley Astronaut
Vivian Kubrick Floyd's Daughter
Edwina Carroll Stewardess
Penny Brahms Stewardess
Alan Gifford Poole's Father
Frank Miller Mission Controller
Aram Khachaturyan Composer
György Ligeti Composer
Johann Strauss Composer,Composer
Alex North Composer

Technical Credits
Stanley Kubrick Director,Screenwriter,Producer,Special Effects
Arthur C. Clarke Screenwriter
Colin J. Cantwell Special Effects,Special Effects
Tom Howard Special Effects
Bryan Loftus Special Effects
Bruce Logan Special Effects
John Jack Malick Special Effects
Frederick Martin Special Effects
David Osborne Special Effects
Con Pederson Special Effects
Douglas Trumbull Special Effects
Wally Veevers Special Effects
Winston Ryder Sound Effects
David Osborn Special Effects
Victor Lyndon Producer
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