2010 [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / the year we make contact / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Peter Hyams film ; written for the screen, produced and directed by Peter Hyams.
Title from container. Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. Special features: "2010: the odyssey continues" vintage featurette; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
In 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiper monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going back to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer so they can learn what happened and find out the meaning of Bowman's last transmission. This will be a joint American-Soviet expedition set against the backdrop of growing global tensions.
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