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Silent Running is a 1972 American environmental-themed science fiction film. It is the directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull, and stars Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse Vint.
Mar 10, 1972 · Silent Running: Directed by Douglas Trumbull. With Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint. In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Douglas Trumbull
- 1972-03-10
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Mar 6, 2013 · As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter 'Valley Forge' preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth...
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- Universal Pictures All-Access
Released in 1972, Silent Running was a kitsch take on the space movie. Lewis Gordon explores how the film anticipated 21st-Century technology. Silent Running opens with an exquisite...
In a future where Earth is barren, ecologist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) fights to save his greenhouse on a space station. He faces a dilemma when he is ordered to destroy his plants and his robotic companions.
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- Sci-Fi
- G
A sci-fi film about a botanist who defies orders to destroy the last of Earth's flora in space. He escapes with his robots and tries to save the forest, but faces a tragic fate in the end.