The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Release Date: Friday, April 29, 2005

Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Garth Jennings, Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Steve Pemberton, Douglas Adams, John Malkovich, Zooey Deschanel, Jay Roach, Karey Kirkpatrick, Warwick Davis, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Todd Arnow, Bill Bailey

PG Action 1 hr, 50 m

  • 3.6

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Plot
Earthman Arthur Dent is having a very bad day. His house is about to be bulldozed, he discovers that his best friend is an alien--and to top things off, Planet Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur's only chance for survival: hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft. For the novice space traveler, the greatest adventure in the universe begins when the world ends. Arthur sets out on a journey in which he finds that nothing is as it seems: he learns that a towel is just the most useful thing in the universe, finds the meaning of life, and discovers that everything he needs to know can be found in one book: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
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The film's director Garth Jennings last directed Sing 2 and Sing.

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Todd Arnow
Gary Barber
Roger Birnbaum
Jonathan Glickman
Jay Roach
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MPA Rating
PG Parental Guidance Suggested for thematic elements, action, and mild language
Runtime
1 hr, 50 m
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Language
English

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  • Sam Rockwell will play Zaphod, the two-headed president of the galaxy. Mos Def plays Ford Prefect, an alien disguising himself as an out-of-work actor who sets out on an intergalactic journey with his best friend, mild-mannered earthling Arthur Dent (Morgan Freeman). The duo hitch a ride through space with Sam Rockwell's Zaphod, the beautiful and brilliant scientist Trillion (Zooey Deschanel) and a depressed robot while on a quest to discover the meaning of life.

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Release Dates

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was released in on Friday, April 29, 2005 . There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including XXX: State of the Union, The Holy Girl and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.



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Mon., Dec. 22, 2008

  • Added the soundtrack release date of April 26, 2005

  • Added the Blu-ray release date of January 23, 2007

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