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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 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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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
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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- Douglas Trumbull
- G
- Bruce Dern
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.
A lonely spaceship keeper refuses to destroy the last greenhouses on Earth and escapes to the stars. Read Ebert's analysis of the ecological theme, the special effects and the performance of Bruce Dern in this classic science fiction movie.
