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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.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Douglas Trumbull
- 1972-03-10
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Silent Running | Rotten Tomatoes. G Released Mar 10, 1972 1h 29m Sci-Fi. List. After the end of all botanical life on Earth, ecologist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) maintains a greenhouse on a...
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- Douglas Trumbull
- G
- Bruce Dern
The keeper of one of these greenhouses, Freeman Lowell, loves the plants and animals with a not terribly acute intelligence. "Silent Running" his story. In an earlier day, he might have been a forest ranger and happily spent the winter all alone in a tower, spotting forest fires.
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 close-up...
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.
