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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 · 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.
- Douglas Trumbull
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- 3 min
Silent Running could make for a remake or series given the right treatment, plenty of plot ideas about. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating
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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 ...
Synopsis. 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. Freeman Lowell (played by Bruce Dern) is the main character, one of four extraterrestrial forest rangers ...
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. Out around the rings of Saturn, a few lonely spaceships ...
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. 3,762 IMDb 6.6 1 h 30 min 1972. X-Ray G. Drama · Science Fiction · Cerebral · Sad. Available to rent or buy.
