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2010: The Year We Make Contact
2010 - The Year We Make Contact
Credits
Title: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Director: Peter Hyams
Writers: Peter Hyams; Arthur C. Clarke
Producers: Peter Hyams; Neil A. Machlis; Jonathan A. Zimbert
Composer: David Shire
Cinematography: Peter Hyams
Editors: Mia Goldman; James Mitchell
Production
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released: December 7th, 1984
Rating: PG
Running time: 116 min. (1 hr. 56 min.)
Country: USA
Language: English
Budget: $28,000,000
Gross: $40,400,657 [1]
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2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 science fiction film, written and directed by Peter Hyams. Co-written by series creator and author Arthur C. Clarke, the film is the sequel to the 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick. 2010 was produced by MGM and released theatrically in the United States on December 7th, 1984. The film takes place ten years after the events of the first film and focuses on the character of Doctor Heywood R. Floyd, a retired scientist who played a minor role in the original film. Floyd is recruited as part of a joint US/Russian space journey to recover the Discovery One spacecraft from the orbit of Jupiter and determine what went wrong with the 2001 Jovian mission. Their inquiry brings them into contact with the mysterious alien Monoliths and Floyd learns the truth about what really happened to astronaut Dave Bowman.

Cast[]

Actor Role
Roy Scheider Doctor Heywood R. Floyd
John Lithgow Doctor Walter Curnow
Helen Mirren Tanya Kirbuk
Bob Balaban Doctor R. Chandra
Keir Dullea Dave Bowman
Douglas Rain HAL 9000
Madolyn Smith Carolyn Floyd
Dana Elcar Dimitri Moisevitch
Taliesin Jaffe Christopher Floyd
James McEachin Victor Milson
Mary Jo Deschanel Betty Fernandez
Elya Baskin Maxim Brajlovsky
Savely Kramarov Doctor Vladimir Rudenko
Oleg Rudnik Doctor Vasili Orlov
Natasha Schneider Irina Yakunina
Vladimir Skomarovsky Yuri Svetlanov
Victor Steinbach Mikolaj Ternovsky
Jan Triska Alexander Kovalev
Herta Ware Jesse Bowman
Olga Mallsnerd SAL 9000
Larry Carroll Anchorman on TV
Cheryl Carter Nurse
Ron Recasner Hospital neurosurgeon
Robert Lesser Doctor Hirsch
Delana Michaels Commercial announcer
Gene McGarr Commercial announcer
Arthur C. Clarke Man on park bench

Notes & Trivia[]

  • Although this is the final film in the "Space Odyssey" series, the story continues in the 1987 novel 2061: Odyssey Three.
  • Douglas Rain reprises his role as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer. Along with Keir Dullea, they are the only actors to have worked on both films in the series.
  • Actress Candice Bergen, more popularly known for her roles on television programs such as Murphy Brown and Boston Legal provides the voice for the SAL 9000 computer. She is credited as Olga Mallsnerd in the movie.

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