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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 . Plot [ edit ]
- March 10, 1972
Mar 10, 1972 · In a future where Earth is barren, a botanist refuses to destroy the last of the flora in his spacecraft. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this 1972 film directed by Douglas Trumbull.
- Douglas Trumbull
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- 3 min
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
Silent Running's ongoing appeal is owed, in part, to the prescience of this ecologically-inflected premise. In 1972, global warming was over 15 years away from entering popular discourse (that ...
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.
In this sci-fi classic, a botanist (Bruce Dern) who has spent years aboard a space freighter receives orders to destroy his project and return home, but instead rebels and hijacks the vessel. 3,774 IMDb 6.6 1 h 30 min 1972. X-Ray G. Drama · Science Fiction · Cerebral · Sad. Available to rent or buy.
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.
