2010

1984 116 min ★ 6.7 Thriller, Science Fiction

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

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Cast

Roy Scheider

Dr. Heywood Floyd

John Lithgow

Dr. Walter Curnow

Helen Mirren

Tanya Kirbuk

Bob Balaban

Dr. R. Chandra

Keir Dullea

Dr. David Bowman

Douglas Rain

HAL 9000 (voice)

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Caroline Floyd

Savely Kramarov

Dr. Vladimir Rudenko

Taliesin Jaffe

Christopher Floyd

James McEachin

Victor Milson

Details

Director

Peter Hyams

Screenplay

Peter Hyams

Tagline

"In the very near future, a small group of Americans and Russians set out on the greatest adventure of them all...to see if there is life beyond the stars."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$28,000,000

Revenue

$40,400,000

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Reviews

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Wuchak

April 8, 2021

★ 7/10

_**Another trip to Jupiter to find answers**_ After the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. Several years later, the Soviets send the spacecraft Leonov & crew to Jupiter along with three Americans, including Floyd, to help investigate Discovery and the malfunc...

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r96sk

January 16, 2024

★ 7/10

A much more standard affair compared to its predecessor. Given that's the case, I honestly enjoyed this more than <em>'2001: A Space Odyssey'</em> - if only because it's more closer to what I'd personally want from a film than what that 1968 flick offers, which is moreso an attempted art piece. Of course, the original does things visibly and audibly far, far greater than this 1984 release - jus...