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.

Top Cast

Roy ScheiderDr. Heywood Floyd

John LithgowDr. Walter Curnow

Helen MirrenTanya Kirbuk

Bob BalabanDr. R. Chandra

Keir DulleaDr. David Bowman

Douglas RainHAL 9000 (voice)

Madolyn Smith OsborneCaroline Floyd

Savely KramarovDr. Vladimir Rudenko