• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1984-12-06
  • Runtime116 minutes
  • TaglineIn 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.
  • Revenue40,400,000$
  • GenreThriller, Science Fiction
  • Production
    CompaniesMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Budget28,000,000$

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

Roy Scheider

John Lithgow

Helen Mirren

Bob Balaban

Keir Dullea

Douglas Rain

Savely Kramarov

Taliesin Jaffe

James McEachin

Mary Jo Deschanel

Ilya Baskin

Dana Elcar

Oleg Rudnik

Natasha Shneider

Vladimir Skomarovsky

Candice Bergen

Herta Ware

Jan Tříska

Robert Lesser

Delana Michaels