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2001

2001

Keir Dullea, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

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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."

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OL19699676W

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DramaTwenty-first centuryArtificial intelligenceInterplanetary voyagesHuman evolutionComputersSpace vehiclesHuman-computer interactionScience fiction filmsFilms for the hearing impairedFeature films

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