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

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Special Effects Department:

Digital Productions digital Jupiter simulation Entertainment Effects Group visual effects		Video Image graphics and visual displays

Tech Info:

Budget:: $28,000,000
Revenue:: $40,400,000

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