The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Resource Information

The work The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Morton Public Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Statement of responsibility

Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment present a Barber/Birnbaum production ; a Hammer & Tongs production ; an Everyman Pictures production ; executive producers, Douglas Adams, Robbie Stamp, Derek Evans ; produced by Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum ; produced by Nick Goldsmith, Jay Roach, Jonathan Glickman ; screenplay by Douglas Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick ; directed by Garth Jennings

Creator

• Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Jadue-Lillo, Igor
• Jennings, Garth
• Kirkpatrick, Karey
• Malkovich, John
• Mirren, Helen
• Mos Def, (Rapper)
• Nighy, Bill, 1949-
• Rickman, Alan
• Roach, Jay
• Rockwell, Sam
• Sheldon, Sammy
• Talbot, Joby
• Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001
• Barber, Gary
• Birnbaum, Roger
• Chancellor, Anna
• Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Spyglass Entertainment (Firm)
• Collins, Joel
• Davis, Warwick
• Deschanel, Zooey, 1980-
• Hammer & Tongs (Firm)
• Everyman Pictures
• Evans, Derek
• Freeman, Martin, 1971-
• Fry, Stephen, 1957-
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Glickman, Jonathan
• Goldsmith, Nick, 1971-
• Howie, Niven
• Touchstone Pictures
• Stamp, Robbie

Actor

• Rickman, Alan
• Deschanel, Zooey, 1980-
• Davis, Warwick
• Nighy, Bill, 1949-
• Chancellor, Anna
• Mos Def, (Rapper)
• Mirren, Helen
• Freeman, Martin, 1971-
• Malkovich, John
• Fry, Stephen, 1957-
• Rockwell, Sam

Costume designer

• Sheldon, Sammy

Director of photography

• Jadue-Lillo, Igor

Film director

• Jennings, Garth

Film distributor

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm)

Film editor

• Howie, Niven

Film producer

• Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001
• Stamp, Robbie
• Roach, Jay
• Goldsmith, Nick, 1971-
• Glickman, Jonathan
• Evans, Derek
• Birnbaum, Roger
• Barber, Gary

Presenter

• Spyglass Entertainment (Firm)
• Touchstone Pictures

Production company

• Hammer & Tongs (Firm)
• Everyman Pictures

Production designer

• Collins, Joel

Screenwriter

• Kirkpatrick, Karey
• Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001

Subject

• Life on other planets -- Drama
• Prefect, Ford
• Science fiction
• Science fiction films
• Science fiction films
• Science fiction films
• Spanish language materials
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Vuelo espacial -- Teatro
• Prefect, Ford -- Drama
• Closed caption video recordings
• Comedy
• Comedy films
• Comedy films
• DVD-Video discs
• DVDs
• Dent, Arthur, (Fictitious character)
• Dent, Arthur, (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Drama
• Feature
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films -- Great Britain
• Feature films -- United States
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• French language materials
• Human-alien encounters
• Human-alien encounters -- Drama
• Interplanetary voyages
• Interplanetary voyages -- Drama
• Interplanetary voyages -- Drama
• Interstellar travel
• Interstellar travel -- Drama
• Life on other planets

Genre

• Feature films
• Feature
• Comedy
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• DVDs
• Science fiction films
• Fiction films
• DVD-Video discs
• Comedy films
• Science fiction
• Film adaptations
• Teatro

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the ship Heart of Gold. They meet many people and aliens in their search for the ultimate question

Cataloging source

BKX

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Music by Joby Talbot ; costume designer, Sammy Sheldon ; editor, Niven Howie ; production designer, Joel Collins ; director of photography, Igor Jadue-Lillo

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG; thematic elements, action & mild language

Language note

English (Dolby 5.1 surround or DTS 5.1 digital surround), French (Dolby digital 2.0.) and Spanish (Dolby digital 2.0) soundtracks with optional subtitles in French or Spanish and captions in English for the hearing impaired; closed-captioned in English

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.H58 2005

PerformerNote

Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Warwick Davis, Anna Chancellor, Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, Stephen Fry, John Malkovich

Runtime

109

Target audience

general

Technique

live action