Thriller / Science Fiction /

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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.

Cast:

Roy Scheider
Dr. Heywood Floyd

John Lithgow
Dr. Walter Curnow

Helen Mirren
Tanya Kirbuk

Bob Balaban
Dr. R. Chandra

Keir Dullea
Dr. David Bowman

Douglas Rain
HAL 9000 (voice)

Madolyn Smith Osborne
Caroline Floyd

Savely Kramarov
Dr. Vladimir Rudenko

Taliesin Jaffe
Christopher Floyd

James McEachin
Victor Milson

Mary Jo Deschanel
Betty Fernandez

Ilya Baskin
Maxim Brailovsky

Dana Elcar
Dimitri Moisevitch

Oleg Rudnik
Dr. Vasili Orlov

Natasha Shneider
Irina Yakunina

Vladimir Skomarovsky
Yuri Svetlanov

Victor Steinbach
Nikolaj Ternovsky

Candice Bergen
SAL 9000 (voice)

Gene McGarr
Commercial Announcer

Herta Ware
Jessie Bowman

Jan Tříska
Alexander Kovalev

Larry Carroll
Anchorman on TV

Cheryl Carter
Nurse

Ron Recasner
Hospital Neurosurgeon

Robert Lesser
Dr. Hirsch

Delana Michaels
Commercial Announcer

Arthur C. Clarke
Man on Park Bench (uncredited)