2010: The Year We Make Contact [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001. Scheider's polyglot crew includes Americans John Lithgow and Bob Balaban (the latter a computer whiz, responsible for the notorious HAL 9000) and Russians Helen Mirren, Elya Baskin and Natasha Schneider. The reason for this international mixture is that the world is on the brink of nuclear war, and it is hoped that the space mission will assure east-west solidarity (in this respect, 2010 dates far more than 2001, given the collapse of the Iron Curtain). When the astronauts catch up with Dullea, still in orbit around Jupiter, producer/director/writer Hyams attempts to demystify the enigmatic climax of 2001. Arthur C. Clarke, author of the story upon which 2001 was based, appears in 2010 as a man on a park bench. Incidentally, the voice-over credited to Olga Mallsnerd is actually Candice Bergen. (The name Mallsnerd is a play on the name of one of the characters created by her ventriloquist father Edgar.) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVD FEATURES:

• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby TrueHD
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, Color
• Subtitle: Finnish, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Danish, English, German
• Features:
  • Vintage featurette 2010: The Odyssey Continues
  • Theatrical trailer

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Art Direction - 1984 (Rick Simpson, Albert Brenner)
•     Nominated Best Costume Design - 1984 (Pat Norris)
•     Nominated Best Makeup - 1984 (Michael Westmore)
•     Nominated Best Sound - 1984 (Carlos DeLarios, Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Gene S. Cantamessa)
•     Nominated Best Visual Effects - 1984 (Richard Edlund, Mark Stetson, Neil Krepela, George Jenson)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Roy Scheider - Heywood Floyd
       John Lithgow - Walter Curnow
       Helen Mirren - Tanya Kirbuk
       Bob Balaban - R. Chandra
       Keir Dullea - Dave Bowman

• Director:

  Peter Hyams

• Producer:

  Peter Hyams, Julia Phillips

• Book Author:

  Arthur C. Clarke

• Screenwriter:

  Peter Hyams

• Cinematographer:

  Peter Hyams, Dave Stewart

• Composer (Music Score):

  David Shire

• Featured Music:

  Richard Strauss

• Editor:

  Mia Goldman, James Mitchell

• Production Designer:

  Albert Brenner, Syd Mead

• Art Director:

  George Jenson

• Associate Producer:

  Neil Machlis, Jonathan A. Zimbert

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