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  • 1979
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Distribution Company
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1979
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Distribution Company
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary The U.S.S. Cygnus is perched precariously at the edge of a black hole – the vast, empty nothingness where space and time end. Anything that crosses its border enters a universe of the complete unknown. A story of robots and humanoids, human genius and madness, and a spectacular descent into nature's ultimate mystery – The Black Hole. [Di...

Directed By: Gary Nelson

Written By: Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Barbash, Richard H. Landau, Gerry Day

  • 1979
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Distribution Company
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1979
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Distribution Company
  • 1 h 38 m

The Black Hole

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
52
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
4.6
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Summary The U.S.S. Cygnus is perched precariously at the edge of a black hole – the vast, empty nothingness where space and time end. Anything that crosses its border enters a universe of the complete unknown. A story of robots and humanoids, human genius and madness, and a spectacular descent into nature's ultimate mystery – The Black Hole. [Di...

Directed By: Gary Nelson

Written By: Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Barbash, Richard H. Landau, Gerry Day

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
52
42% Positive
5 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
17% Negative
2 Reviews

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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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17% Negative
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80
It is good to see the Disney craftsmen doing what they do best on such a grand and risky scale. If one has time for only one space opera this season, this is the one to choose.
By Richard Schickel FULL REVIEW
75
A triumph of style over substance.
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70
The Black Hole is attractively unpretentious and at times quite snappy.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
60
A pretty craven attempt by Disney to cash-in on Star Wars blockbusting success, this lightweight but well-written sci-fi adventure movie is well pitched at the very young. More discerning fans of the genre would do well to smother their indignation at the levels of general plagiarism floating around the deck of the supership Cygnus.
By Ian Nathan FULL REVIEW
50
Gary Nelson's direction is very bad, the writing is weak, and the acting campy at best—but Peter Ellenshaw's production design strikes the right balance of vastness and seductive detail.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
40
The company's effects team have excelled themselves in the creation of spectacular settings and holograms, but the script reads as though they simply ordered up a melange of Forbidden Planet and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with a little bit of R2D2 on the side). Next time around they ought to pension off a few designers to pay for a decent screenplay.
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12
The Black Hole isn't mediocre or even bad - it's dreadful...[It] looks, sounds and feels like a careless, cynically manufactured B-movie. Uncle Walt must be spinning in his cyrogenic vault. [24 Dec 1979]
By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
4.6
14% Positive
1 Rating
57% Mixed
4 Ratings
29% Negative
2 Ratings

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57% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Production Company Walt Disney Productions
Release Date Dec 21, 1979
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline There is an inexorable force in the cosmos, a place where time and space converge. A place beyond man's vision...but not beyond his reach.
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 4 Nominations
Hugo Awards
• 1 Nomination

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