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2010: The Year We Make Contact

starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea
directed by: Peter Hyams

: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569505322
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 5166
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 07, 1984



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Product Description:
A joint american-soviet space expedition is sent to jupiter to learn what happen to the discovery. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/05/2004 Starring: John Lithgow Helen Mirren Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Peter Hyams

Amazon.com:
No director could ever have hoped to repeat the artistic achievement of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and nobody knew that better than Peter Hyams, who made this much more conventional film from the first of three sequel novels by Arthur C. Clarke. Whereas Kubrick made a poetic film of mind-expanding ideas and metaphysical mysteries, Hyams shouldn't be blamed for taking a more practical, crowd-pleasing approach. In revealing much of what Kubrick deliberately left unexplained, 2010 lacks the enigmatic awe of its predecessor, but it's still a riveting tale of space exploration and extraterrestrial contact, beginning when a joint American-Soviet mission embarks to determine the cause of failure of the derelict spaceship Discovery. Having arrived at Discovery near the planet Jupiter, the American mission leader (Roy Scheider) and his Russian counterpart (Helen Mirren) must investigate the apparent failure of the ship's infamous onboard computer, HAL 9000, as well as the meaning of countless mysterious black monoliths amassing on Jupiter's surface (an interpretation Kubrick originally left up to his viewers). Meanwhile, Earth is on the brink of nuclear war, and an apparition of astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) appears to repeatedly promise that 'something wonderful' is about to happen. --Jeff Shannon



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Unfairly maligned
"2010: The Year We Make Contact" gets a bad rap primarily because it's not "2001: A Space Odyssey." ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Superb follow-up to the first
I found 2010 much easier to follow, largely due to the fact it had a conventional story line rather ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 2010 The Year We Make Contact
2010 is a wonderful continuation of 2001. It is well acted and has plenty of technical reality straight ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - "Something wonderful!"
This movie came out during Reagan's reign, when the Cold War was still running pretty hot. The race to Jupiter, ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - 2010: Space Farce?
I thought this was a silly movie. I don't know what I thought I was expecting... but while 2001 made sense, 2010 ... Read More

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