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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 are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
After the end of all botanical life on Earth, ecologist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) maintains a greenhouse on a space station in order to preserve various plants for...
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Silent Running takes place in the not-so-distant future, at a time in which Earth's plant life has been decimated. Only a few specimens of flora have been preserved, and are currently in space in a fleet of orbiting greenhouses.
As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter 'Valley Forge' preserving the on...
Silent Running. In the not very distant future, man has at last finished with Earth. The mountains are leveled and the valleys filled in, and there are no growing plants left to mess things up. Everything is nice and sterile, and man's global housekeeping has achieved total defoliation.
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...
Setting up a series of nuclear bombs, Lowell pets Huey one last time, then blows the ship up. Later, far away in outer space, the forest dome flourishes with renewed vigor and Dewey waters a young tree with Lowell's favorite watering can. (1971) competing in today's sci-fi movie market.
Silent Running is a science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull. The film follows Freeman Lowell, played by Bruce Dern, who is a botanist aboard a spaceship tasked with preserving the last remaining forests from an ecologically devastated Earth. Accompanied by three robotic companions, Lowell faces moral and existential dilemmas as he navigates the challenges of his isolated mission.
After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.
