Director: Garth Jennings

Writers: Douglas Adams; Karey Kirkpatrick

From novel: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Keywords: Sci-Fi

Film adaptation of the Douglas Adams novel of the same name follows a hapless Earthly everyman as he is swept up in an intergalactic fiasco.

ABSTRACT
Arthur Dent is a pitiable figure of a man with problems, his house's impending demolition to make way for a bypass paramount among them. Catching up with buddy Ford Prefect after he is convinced to abandon his futile attempt to delay the destruction of his property by laying down in front of bulldozers in favor of a trip to the pub, Arthur is informed of his friend's existence as an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse, brought into a wild adventure to pacify evil throughout the universe after a Vogon Constructor Fleet destroys Earth to make way for an interstellar bypass. Questionable casting sidelines a nonetheless reasonably funny adaptation of brilliant source material, though the film still managed to be a hit at the box office.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bill Bailey	Comic	24-Feb-1964		Panelist, Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Anna Chancellor	Actor	27-Apr-1965		Juliet Shaw on Spooks
Warwick Davis	Actor	3-Feb-1970		Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mos Def	Rapper	11-Dec-1973		Black On Both Sides
Zooey Deschanel	Actor	17-Jan-1980		New Girl
Martin Freeman	Actor	8-Sep-1971		Tim on The Office
Stephen Fry	Actor	24-Aug-1957		Jeeves and Wooster
Mark Gatiss	Actor	17-Oct-1966		The League of Gentlemen
Richard Griffiths	Actor	31-Jul-1947	28-Mar-2013	The History Boys
Simon Jones	Actor	27-Jul-1950		Arthur Dent on radio Hitchhiker's Guide
Thomas Lennon	Actor	9-Aug-1970		Reno 911!, The State
Kelly Macdonald	Actor	23-Feb-1976		Trainspotting
John Malkovich	Actor	9-Dec-1953		Subject of Being John Malkovich
Ian McNeice	Actor	2-Oct-1950		Bert Large on Doc Martin
Helen Mirren	Actor	26-Jul-1945		Prime Suspect
Bill Nighy	Actor	12-Dec-1949		Love Actually
Alan Rickman	Actor	21-Feb-1946	14-Jan-2016	Die Hard
Sam Rockwell	Actor	5-Nov-1968		Lawn Dogs

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