2001: A Space Odyssey
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
- Release Date
- May 12, 1968
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Cast
- Keir Dullea , Gary Lockwood , William Sylvester
- Runtime
- 2 hours 29 minutes
- Main Genre
- Science Fiction
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick , Arthur C. Clarke
- Production Company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Stanley Kubrick Productions
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