2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001: A Space Odyssey

G

1968

2h 19m

Sci-Fi

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An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.

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One of the most influential of all sci-fi films -- and one of the most controversial -- Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is a delicate, poetic meditation on the ingenuity -- and folly -- of mankind.

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Marjory Adams

Boston Globe

Apr 9, 2025

This film is as exciting as the discovery of a new dimension in life.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Apr 9, 2025

It's a bad, bad sign when a movie director begins to think of himself a myth-maker, and this limp myth of a grand plan that justifies slaughter and ends with resurrection has been around before.

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Philip Strick

Sight & Sound

Apr 9, 2025

If there was any doubt that space travel will be the most spectacular of mankind's future, "Space Odyssey" is the definitive affirmation that every last coin spent on the space race will be worth it.

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Frank Gagnard

Times-Picayune

5 days ago

Director Stanley Kubrick's years of preparation and production on 2001: A Space Odyssey are justified in one of the most staggeringly brilliant and big motion pictures ever made.

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Barry Westgate

Edmonton Journal

5 days ago

Made in cinerama, and for total audience involvement, and obviously losing a little on the flat screen, the film cinematically is a gem. But it has no character in the way most films have character. It is almost completely extra-human.

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Lorne Parton

The Province (Vancouver)

5 days ago

If Clarke and Kubrick started out to make a film that would make people think, they have succeeded, but their main mistake is that which trapped many science-fictions writers in the 30s and 40s: machines are interesting, but people are fascinating.

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Josh

Oct 3, 2026

timeless masterpiece

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Tory

Sep 10, 2026

Greatest film ever witnessed

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michael

Aug 17, 2026

i mean this is like the greatest thing ever

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Kelsey R

Aug 16, 2026

revolutionary. speaks volumes to this day…

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Melinda

Sep 27, 2025

This needs to play in movie theaters more often. What a treat!

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Daniel Eric

Sep 27, 2025

Fancy thought-provoking movie. Culture.

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Synopsis

An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick
Distributor: Warner Home Vídeo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., Criterion Collection
Production Co: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Stanley Kubrick Productions
Rating: G
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 2, 1968, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters): May 18, 2018
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 6, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.3M
Runtime: 2h 19m
Sound Mix: Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Mono, Stereo
Aspect Ratio: 70mm

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