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[[File:TheBlackHole_TVTropes.jpg|frame|In, through... and ''beyond''.]]

 

 

An Earth exploratory ship, the ''USS Palomino'', discovers a black hole with a lost ship, the ''USS Cygnus'', somehow defying its gravity and hovering just outside its event horizon. Setting off to solve the mystery of the Cygnus are: the Palomino's Captain, Dan Holland (Robert Forster); his First Officer, Lieutenant Charlie Pizer (Joseph Bottoms); journalist Harry Booth (Ernest Borgnine); ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae (Yvette Mimieux); Dr. Alex Durant (Anthony Perkins), the expedition's civilian leader; and the robot V.I.N.CENT ("'''V'''ital '''I'''nformation '''N'''ecessary '''CENT'''ralized"). The Palomino attempts a dangerous fly-by of the ship, which is dark and apparently derelict. As they come within close range of it, the buffeting they experience due to the black hole's gravity suddenly ceases. They bring more instruments to bear on the ship, but do not realize the gravity-free zone is artificial and limited; slipping outside it, they are almost drawn into the hole.

As the crew repairs the ''Palomino'', they discover that the ''Cygnus'' is not only functional but inhabited by a crew of faceless robots and their human commander, Dr. Hans Reinhardt, who intends to take the ''Cygnus'' into the black hole to see what awaits him on the other side. However, they discover something more sinister behind Reinhardt's preparations, and they must race against time to escape before their own ship becomes mere collateral damage in the quest of an apparent madman.

 

 

Many consider this film to be Disney's biggest flop (which lead to countless jokes about the company's money being tossed into the titular hole), and that it represents everything that was wrong with Ron Miller's leadership of the company. In actual fact it made $35m on a budget of $20m, so it did earn a slight profit for the company; nonetheless, not very many people regard the film as one of Disney's finer moments. Indeed, along with one other movie that was released the same year, it was the first ever Disney movie to be given a PG rating; something that ultimately would lead to the creation of Touchstone Pictures in 1984 (with the PG-rated ''[[Splash]]'' as its first release).

 

 

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