Rent 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
3.4 of 5 from 189 ratings
1h 51min
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- Synopsis:
- A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov will rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000.
- Actors:
- Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Dana Elcar, Taliesin Jaffe, James McEachin, Mary Jo Deschanel, Elya Baskin, Saveliy Kramarov, Oleg Rudnik, Natasha Shneider, Vladimir Skomarovsky, Victor Steinbach, Jan Tríska, Larry Carroll, Herta Ware, Cheryl Carter
- Directors:
- Peter Hyams
- Voiced By:
- Douglas Rain, Candice Bergen
- Writers:
- Arthur C. Clarke, Peter Hyams
- Others:
- Mark Stetson, Rick Simpson, Richard Edlund, Michael Westmore, Michael J Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Patricia Norris, Neil Krepela, Carlos de Larios, Albert Brenner, Gene S. Cantamessa, George Jenson
- Aka:
- 2010: Odyssey Two
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- A History of Films Set In The Future, Films & TV by topic, Getting to Know: Helen Mirren, Giant Leap for Mankind: A History of Astronaut Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/04/2009
- Run Time:
- 116 minutes
- Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese Dolby Digital 1.0, Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, German Hard of Hearing, Italian, Italian Hard of Hearing, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Vintage Featurette 2010: The Odyssey Continues
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Excellent, Underrated SciFi Sequel - 2010: The Year We Make Contact review by GI
If you found 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) baffling then you'll find this sequel rather more entertaining mainly because it's a fairly straight forward genre piece with a good solid story and specifically adapted from it's source novel by director Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays Dr Heywood Floyd (a relatively minor character in the first film) who has been forced out of his job due to the failure of the 'Discovery' mission to Jupiter. But he is enticed back as part of the crew of a joint USA & USSR mission to find out what happened on the first mission. The result is a captivating sci-fi story with some great visual effects, a side plot involving international tensions back of Earth and elements of Kubrick's original surrealist plot. With Helen Mirren, in her first American film, and John Lithgow as co stars this is well worth checking out even if you didn't really get the first film. This one sort of helps explain the basics . But that aside this film often gets unfairly compared to Kubrick's classic but that's a mistake because this is a completely different style of film from a director who focused on the great novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Well worth seeking out if you have never seen it.
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