Now, before we get into what you need to know of how you can watch '2001: A Space Odyssey' right now, here are some useful insights about the Stanley Kubrick Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adventure flick. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain has a G rating, a runtime of about 2 hr 29 min. The release date of the movie is April 10th, 1968. The movie received a user score of 81/100 on TMDb, which was calculated from reviews from 12,199 community users.
Curious about the story behind it? Here's the plot: "Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer."
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'2001: A Space Odyssey' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on April 10th, 1968
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The Space Odyssey Series
The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of two film adaptations from Arthur C. Clarke works. 2001: A Space Odyssey — a film and novel — produced concurrently and released in 1968, and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, an adaption by Peter Hyams.









