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Name: Silent Running
Released: 1972-3-11
Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Silent Running

G
1h 29m
1972

71%

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As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, Lowell rebels and hijacks the freighter, while plunging the craft into the gaseous Rings of Saturn. From that moment on, he has only the trees, the gardens and two "Drone" robots, Huey and Dewey, to keep him company on his greatest adventure of all.

Director:

Douglas Trumbull

Producer:

Michael Gruskoff

Writer:

Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Steven Bochco

Cast:

Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

71%

Critics Consensus: It doesn't fulfill the potential of its ambitious themes, butSilent Running stands as a decidedly unique type of sci-fi journey marked by intimate character work and a melancholic mood.

Reviews

RogerEbert.com

Wael Khairy

...more relevant today than it was back in 1972

It is brilliantly illustrated but the storyline and dramatic structure are fatally weak.

rumbull makes the colour and detail of the simple, exquisite things in that garden—its lush green foliage for instance, and the oranges, yellows and pinks of flowers—pop and glow by contrasting them against the vast black emptiness of space

It’s a sardonic, eventually grisly fable of a rich, powerful clan whose despoiling of the pristine countryside draws a visitor in disguise delivering vengeance on behalf of Mother Nature herself.

...a sombre, often pompous story, but it's also got offbeat charm...

February 24, 2021

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