An ancient extraterrestrial structure on the Earths moon provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic story by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, The HAL 9000, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.