2010: The Year We Make Contact
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| Directed by | Peter Hyams |
| Produced by | Peter Hyams |
| Screenplay by | Peter Hyams |
| Based on |
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Music by | David Shire |
| Cinematography | Peter Hyams |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million |
| Box office | $40.4 million (North America) |
2010 (also known as 2010: The Year We Make Contact) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced and directed by Peter Hyams. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel 2010: Odyssey Two.
Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and John Lithgow star, along with Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain of the cast of the previous film.
Nine years after the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, which resulted in the deaths of four astronauts and the disappearance of David Bowman, the fiasco was blamed on Dr. Heywood Floyd, who resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. While an international dispute causes tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the Discovery. Although the Soviet ship, the Leonov, will be ready before the American spacecraft Discovery Two, the Soviets need American astronauts to help board the Discovery and investigate the malfunction of the ship's sentient computer, HAL 9000, which caused the disaster. The US government agrees to a joint mission when it is determined that Discovery will crash into Jupiter's moon Io before Discovery Two is ready. Floyd, along with Discovery designer Walter Curnow and HAL 9000's creator Dr. Chandra, joins the Soviet mission.
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