FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
2001: A Space Odyssey
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer92%as of 2025-01-19
- Rotten Tomatoes average9.3/10as of 2022-04-17
- Metacritic84/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke. Its plot was inspired by several short stories optioned from Clarke, primarily "The Sentinel" (1951) and "Encounter in the Dawn" (1953).
At a glance
- Genres
- Mystery / Adventure
- Original language
- English
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