2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) - 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.

2010: The Year We Make Contact

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.
( Sci-Fi / Thriller )

MPAA Rating:

US Runtime: 116 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Dec 06, 1984 [USA]

Director:	Peter Hyams [Director]

Writer:	Peter Hyams [Screenplay]

Producer:	Peter Hyams [Producer]

Cinematography:	Peter Hyams [Director of Photography]

Edited by:	Mia Goldman [Editor] James Mitchell [Editor]

Music Composed by	David Shire [Original Music Composer]

Production Design:	Albert Brenner [Production Design]

Costume Design:	Patricia Norris [Costume Design]

Casting by	Penny Perry [Casting]

Production Company:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)

Plot Summary:

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.

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 Triska Alexander Kovalev Larry Carroll Anchorman on TV Cheryl Carter Nurse Ron Recasner Hospital Neurosurgeon Robert Lesser Dr. Hirsch Delana Michaels Commercial Announcer

Uncredited Cast:

Arthur C Clarke Man on Park Bench (uncredited)

Stunt Crew:

M. James Arnett Stunt Coordinator Jim Burk Stunts James M. Halty Stunts		Robert Harman Stunts Freddie Hice Stunts John C. Meier Stunts		Gary Morgan Stunts Mic Rodgers Stunts

Sound Crew:

Richard L. Anderson Supervising Sound Editor Michael J. Benavente Sound Editor Gene S. Cantamessa Production Sound Mixer James Christopher Sound Editor Carlos DeLarios Sound Re-Recording Mixer Donald Flick Sound Editor		Warren Hamilton Jr. Sound Editor Robin Haskins Sound Re-Recording Mixer Michael J. Kohut Sound Re-Recording Mixer Tim Mangini Sound Effects Editor Vince Melandri ADR Editor Ray O'Reilly Sound Re-Recording Mixer		Aaron Rochin Sound Re-Recording Mixer Dan Sharp Sound Re-Recording Mixer David E. Stone Sound Editor Dale Strumpell Sound Designer

Special Visual Effects Crew:

David Blitstein Special Effects Assistant Andy Evans Special Effects Assistant William Guest Special Effects		Robert Harman Special Effects Doug Hubbard Special Effects Gregory L. McMurry Visual Effects Supervisor		Henry Millar Jr. Special Effects Supervisor Juniko Moody Visual Effects

Art Department:

David B. Brenner Set Designer Paul Huston Conceptual Design Burke Mattsson Title Designer		Greg Papalia Set Designer Gregory Pickrell Set Designer Rick Simpson Set Decoration		William Ladd Skinner Set Designer Kandy Stern Set Designer Marty Wunderlich Property Master

Directing Crew:

William S. Beasley First Assistant Director		Alan B. Curtiss Second Assistant Director

Camera and Electrical Department:

John Baron Chief Lighting Technician Don E. FauntLeRoy Assistant Camera		Ralph Gerling Camera Operator Bruce McBroom Still Photographer		D. Michael Wheeler Second Assistant Camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department:

Nancy McArdle Costume Supervisor		Bruce Walkup Costume Supervisor

Other Crew:

Linda Klein Medical Consultant

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