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.
Roy Scheider
as Dr. Heywood Floyd
John Lithgow
as Dr. Walter Curnow
Helen Mirren
as Tanya Kirbuk
Bob Balaban
as Dr. R. Chandra
Keir Dullea
as Dr. David Bowman
Douglas Rain
as HAL 9000 (voice)
Madolyn Smith Osborne
as Caroline Floyd
Savely Kramarov
as Dr. Vladimir Rudenko
Taliesin Jaffe
as Christopher Floyd
James McEachin
as Victor Milson
Wuchak
_**Another trip to Jupiter to find answers**_ After the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. Several years later, the Soviets send the spacecraft Leonov & crew t...
r96sk
A much more standard affair compared to its predecessor. Given that's the case, I honestly enjoyed this more than <em>'2001: A Space Odyssey'</em> - if only because it's more closer to what I'd personally want from a film than what that 1968 flick offers, which is moreso an attempted art piece. O...