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2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001: A Space Odyssey
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G,2hrs 19min
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Released:
January 1, 1968
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Distributor:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring:
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Scott Rosenberg, Salon.com
Beloved for many different reasons, including its scrupulous scientific accuracy, its vast reach from "The Dawn of Man" to the next stage of human evolution, its unrivaled integration of musical and visual composition, its daring paucity of dialogue and washes of silence, its astonishingly creative psychedelic sequence and its still-gorgeous pre-digital special effects. Full Review
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86
Universal Acclaim
out of 100
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Keir Dullea
Bowman
Gary Lockwood
Poole
William Sylvester
Dr. Heywood Floyd
Daniel Richter
Moonwatcher, the Man-Ape
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Arthur C. Clarke, March 19, age 90: The visionary science fiction writer was born in England, though...
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