Synopsis
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. ??Larry Cousins

Awards: 16 wins & 12 nominations total
Budget: $12,000,000 (estimated)
Worldwide Gross: $65,802,496
Soundtrack: Gayane Ballet Suite -- Gayane's Adagio ((1941-2))


Stanley Kubrick
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
1970-06-24 (United Kingdom, United States)
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