Bryanston Pictures.

"This satirical, spaced-out comedy (a brilliant parody of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) follows the scout ship Dark Star, with a crew of very bored and weary astronauts, on a mission to clear all unstable planets--to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. All is well until one of the thinking and talking Exponential Thermosteller bombs threatens to destroy the entire ship and crew!"--

Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.