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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, 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."
2005 · Directed by Garth Jennings · 109 min · Adventure · Comedy · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
Don't leave Earth without it.
Plot
One Thursday morning, Arthur Dent discovers that his house is to be immediately demolished to make way for a bypass. He tries delaying the bulldozers by lying down in front of them; however, Arthur's friend Ford Prefect convinces him to go to the nearby pub. While there, Ford explains that he is an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and a journalist working on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a universal guide book. Ford warns that the Earth is to be demolished later that day by the extraterrestrial Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
As the Vogon fleet arrives, Ford rescues Arthur by stowing them aboard one of the alien ships. The Earth is then destroyed. Arthur and Ford are promptly discovered and tortured with Vogon poetry before being ejected from the vessel and left for dead. However, they are picked up by the starship Heart of Gold, aboard which they meet Ford's "semi-cousin" Zaphod Beeblebrox, the newly elected President of the Galaxy. He has stolen the ship along with Tricia "Trillian" McMillan, an Earth woman whom Arthur had met previously, and Marvin, a clinically depressed android.
Zaphod seeks the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything to match the disappointing answer once given by the ancient supercomputer Deep Thought: "42". He believes the answer lies on the planet Magrathea, which is only accessible through trial and error using the Heart of Gold's improbability drives.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Karey Kirkpatrick, Douglas Adams
- Cinematography: Igor Jadue-Lillo
- Edited by: Niven Howie
- Music: Joby Talbot
- Production design: Joel Collins
- Produced by: Roger Birnbaum, Nick Goldsmith, Jonathan Glickman, Jay Roach
Cast
- Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent
- Yasiin Bey as Ford Prefect
- Zooey Deschanel as Trillian
- Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox
- Alan Rickman as Marvin (voice)
- Anna Chancellor as Questular Rontok
- Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast
- Richard Griffiths as Jeltz (voice)
- John Malkovich as Humma Kavula
- Helen Mirren as Deep Thought (voice)
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Spyglass Entertainment, Everyman Pictures, Hammer & Tongs, Touchstone Pictures
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $104,500,000
- Themes: galaxy, android, bureaucracy, based on novel or book, chase, space travel, alien, survival, hitchhiker, robot
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