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2010: The Year We Make Contact
Release Date	December 7, 1984
Genre	Science Fiction
Director	Peter Hyams
Screenwriter	Arthur C. Clarke (novel) Peter Hyams
Stars	Roy Scheider John Lithgow Helen Mirren Bob Balaban Keir Dullea Douglas Rain
Studio	MGM

2010: The Year We Make Contact, known simply as 2010 is a 1984 film sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey based on the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke. Peter Hyams directed the film and wrote the screenplay.

Plot

Nine years after the failure of the Discovery mission to Jupiter, The USSR develops an advanced engine that enables an American team to join them on a mission to uncover what went wrong with the Discovery mission. Amidst mounting global tension, the team tries to discover why HAL 9000 malfunctioned and the reasons behind the appearance of a black monolith in orbit of Jupiter.

Cast

• 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 Dave Bowman
• Douglas Rain as HAL 9000 (voice)
• Madolyn Smith Osborne as Caroline Floyd
• Dana Elcar as Dimitri Moisevitch
• Taliesin Jaffe as Christopher Floyd
• James McEachin as Victor Milson
• Mary Jo Deschanel as Betty Fernandez, Bowman's Wife
• Elya Baskin as Maxim Brajlovsky
• Saveli Kramarov as Dr. Vladimir Rudenko
• Oleg Rudnik as Dr. Vasili Orlov
• Natasha Shneider as Irina Yakunina

Broadcast History

• July 10, 2007, 10:15 PM AMC
• July 11, 2007, 3:30 PM AMC

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