| Release Date: | Apr 1968 |
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| Genres: | Sci-Fi / Adventure |
| Awards: | Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations |
| Cast: | Kevin Scott (Miller), John Swindells (TMA-1 Site Technician #1 (uncredited)), Burnell Tucker (TMA-1 Site Photographer (uncredited)), Penny Pearl ((uncredited)), Jane Pearl ((uncredited)), Kim Neil ((uncredited)), Krystyna Marr (Russian Scientist), Marcella Markham ((uncredited)), Irena Marr (Russian Scientist), Vivian Kubrick (Squirt - Floyd's Daughter (uncredited)), Jane Hayward ((uncredited)), Kenneth Kendall (BBC-12 Announcer (uncredited)), Penny Francis ((uncredited)), Julie Croft ((uncredited)), John Clifford (TMA-1 Site Technician #2 (uncredited)), Ann Bormann ((uncredited)), Sheraton Blount ((uncredited)), S. Newton Anderson (Young Man (uncredited)), Martin Amor (Interviewer (uncredited)), Richard Woods (Ape killed by Moon-Watcher (as...), Bob Wilyman (Ape), Andy Wallace (Ape), Joe Refalo (Ape), Darryl Paes (Ape), Laurence Marchant (Ape), Scott MacKee (Ape), John Jordan (Ape), Tony Jackson (Ape), David Hines (Ape), Brian Hawley (Ape), David Fleetwood (Ape), Danny Grover (Ape), Terry Duggan (Ape attacked by leopard), Péter Delmár (Ape), Simon Davis (Ape), Jonathan Daw (Ape), David Charkham (Ape), Jimmy Bell (Ape), John Ashley (Ape), Heather Downham (Stewardess), Mike Lovell (Astronaut), Penny Brahms (Stewardess), Edwina Carroll (Aries-1B stewardess), Ann Gillis (Poole's mother), Glenn Beck (Astronaut), Alan Gifford (Poole's father), Ed Bishop (Aries-1B Lunar shuttle captain), Bill Weston (Astronaut), Frank Miller (Mission Controller), Sean Sullivan (Dr. Bill Michaels), Douglas Rain (HAL 9000), Robert Beatty (Dr. Ralph Halvorsen), Margaret Tyzack (Elena), Leonard Rossiter (Dr. Andrei Smyslov), Daniel Richter (Moon-Watcher), William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood R. Floyd), Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole), Keir Dullea (Dr. Dave Bowman) |
2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon's surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.
