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2001: A Space Odyssey

“An epic drama of adventure and exploration.”

19682h 29mDir Stanley Kubrick8.0TMDB
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Top Cast

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Keir Dullea
Keir Dullea
as Dr. David Bowman
Gary Lockwood
Gary Lockwood
as Dr. Frank Poole
William Sylvester
William Sylvester
as Dr. Heywood Floyd
Douglas Rain
Douglas Rain
as HAL 9000 (voice)
Daniel Richter
Daniel Richter
as Moonwatcher
Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter
as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Tyzack
as Elena
Robert Beatty
Robert Beatty
as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
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The scene we cut

Stress pill

The computer suggests the astronaut sit down calmly and take a stress pill.

Douglas Rain voiced HAL in two days and never saw the film during production.

All the scenes we have cut
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