2001
Subtitle: a space odyssey
By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Stanley Kubrick production ; directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Contributors: Lockwood, Gary, 1937-; Unsworth, Geoffrey, 1914-1978; Khachaturi︠a︡n, Aram, 1903-1978; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Edition: Widescreen format.
Series: Stanley Kubrick collection
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Burbank, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Drama; Twenty-first century; Artificial intelligence; Interplanetary voyages; Human evolution
Other titles: Two thousand one; Two thousand and one; Space odyssey; Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey
Description: At the dawn of human history, a mysterious black monolith appears to lead primitive man to the next step of evolution. In 2001, another monolith is uncovered on the moon, pointing to Jupiter. On a mission to discover the source of the monolith, one astronaut survives an encounter with a superintelligent but flawed computer to become the "Starchild."
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.

Duration on container: 148 min.

Includes theatrical trailers and interview with writer Arthur C. Clarke.

Director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth ; film editor, Ray Lovejoy ; music by Aram Khatchaturian ... [et al.].

Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood.

Made at MGM British Studios, Ltd., Borehamwood, England.

MPAA rating: G.

DVD player required; 5.1 surround in English; mono. in French; region 1.

Soundtrack in English or French; subtitles in French, Spanish, or English.

Closed-captioned.