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Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, The

Original Title

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The

Year

2005

Genre

Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Country

USA, UK

Director

Garth Jennings

Writer

Douglas Adams, Karey Kirkpatrick

Composer

Joby Talbot

Producer

Douglas Adams, Todd Arnow, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Derek Evans, Jonathan Glickman, Nick Goldsmith, Caroline Hewitt, Jay Roach, Rebekah Rudd, Robbie Stamp

Actors

Bill Bailey, Anna Chancellor, Mos Def, Warwick Davis, Yasiin Bey, Zooey Deschanel, Su Elliot, Martin Freeman, Stephen Fry, Richard Griffiths, Dominique Jackson, Simon Jones, Thomas Lennon, Mark Longhurst, Kelly Macdonald, John Malkovich, Ian McNeice, Helen Mirren, Bill Nighy, Steve Pemberton, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Jack Stanley, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Mak Wilson, Albie Woodington, Mason Ball, Sarah Bennett, Danny Blackner, Hayley Burroughs, Cecily Fay, Aron Freeman, Ian Kay, Nikki McInness, Mohsen Nouri, Oliver Parham, Nigel Plaskitt, Lynn Robertson Bruce, Jerome St. John Blake, Milo Bodrozic, Martin Dawson, Dan Ellis, Steve Grindle, Art Hewitt, Simon Hibbs, Rob Horseman, Mike Lewis, Paul Nathaniel, Tim Perrin, Jessie Riley, Tucker Stevens, Ashley Stuart, Ben Uttley, Patrick Walker, Spencer Wilding, William Wollen, Polly Jane Rocket Adams, Alex Argenti, Jane Belson, Peter Burroughs, Ray Donn, Garth Jennings, Rich Johnston, Zoe Kubaisi, Jim Lynn, Jason Schwartzman, Alisha Smith, Mark Rhino Smith, Sean Sollé, Mark Stevenson, James Thrift, Susie Valerio, Edgar Wright

Description

Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast...but for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth. ------- Arthur Dent is a British everyman. When he finally meets his perfect woman he balks at her request to go some place and she is then stolen away from him by a man claiming to have his own spaceship arrives at the party. Arthur next finds that his home is to be demolished for a bypass. He thinks it is only his house, but later realizes, with the help of Ford Prefect, that his galactic home, Earth, is going to be destroyed as well. Ford and Arthur then catch a ride on a spaceship and are Arthur finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime. He also finds the woman stolen away from him and the man who pilfered her. If Earth can be restored will Arthur want to ease back into his boring life? ------- Everyman Arthur Dent is whisked off the Earth seconds before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Sadly, his day has only just begun. Before it's over, he will have been blown up, attended a poetry reading, been thrown out of an airlock, rescued, reunited with the love of his life, shot at, had a fish stuck in his ear, insulted, whacked, sickened, deprived of tea, learned the answer to the ultimate question, and almost had his brain sawed out by mice. He then goes to have lunch. ------- Waking up one morning, a British man named Arthur Dent awakes and find his house is going to be demolished. But for Arthur, the demolition of his house is only the beginning, Arthur's friend eccentric Ford Prefect reveals to Earth that he is not human and he is a alien from a planet called Bettleguise and is a researcher of a electronic book called "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Ford saves Arthur when Earth is wiped out by the Vogons who have demolished the Earth to make way for a new intergalactic motorway. Embarking on a intergalactic adventure, Arthur and Ford are joined by two-headed former president of the galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, intelligent human woman Trillian and Marvin, a depressed android, travels across the galaxy on-board Zaphod's stolen spaceship "Heart of Gold". Where they set out to discover the meaning of life and travel to the newly constructed Earth II, where Slartibartfast reveals the truth about the original Earth, that was destroyed by the Vogons. ------- Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Comments

Duration

105 minutes (at 25 frames per second)

Filesize

430 MB

Video

MPEG-4 Visual - resolution: 720x304

Audio