Bruce Dern
Freeman Lowell
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Silent Running is a 1972 sci-fi film about a botanist who tries to save the last forest on Earth from destruction. Learn about the plot, cast, production, and reception of this environmental-themed classic.
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.
- (32K)
- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Douglas Trumbull
- 1972-03-10
A sci-fi movie about a spaceship keeper who rebels against destroying Earth's last greenhouses. Read the film summary, review and credits by Roger Ebert, a renowned film critic.
As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter 'Valley Forge' preserving the on...
- 3 min
- 242.3K
- Universal Pictures All-Access
In a future where all plants on Earth are extinct, ecologist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) tends a greenhouse on a space station with the help of three robots. He faces a dilemma when he is ordered to destroy the greenhouse and his robots to make room for cargo.
- (35)
- Douglas Trumbull
- G
- Bruce Dern
Released in United States March 1975 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Science Fiction Movie Marathon - Selection of Trailers) March 13-26, 1975.) An astronaut guarding the last the Earth's forests defies an order to destroy his precious cargo.
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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 deadly collision with Saturn's rings.
