Silent Running with Bruce Dern: DVD Cover

    Silent Running Director: Douglas Trumbull Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/21/2002
    • Original Release: 1971
    • Rating: Rated G
    • Sales Rank: 8,444

    Viewer Rating: (5 ratings)

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    The making of "Silent Running"; Feature commentary with director Douglas Trumbull and cast member Bruce Dern; "Silent Running" by Douglas Trumbull; A conversation with Bruce Dern; "Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now"; Theatrical trailer; Production notes; Cast and filmmakers

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Main Titles [1:41]
    2. A World in Space [6:27]
    3. Waiting For a Transmission [3:17]
    4. Bad News [3:43]
    5. Nature's Greatest Gift [3:56]
    6. Safe Distancing [4:13]
    7. Setting the Bombs [4:06]
    8. Lowell's Mutiny [4:55]
    9. Stalling For Time [2:40]
    10. Emergency [2:48]
    11. A Drone Doctor [7:49]
    12. The Rings of Saturn [7:47]
    13. Huey & Dewey [3:40]
    14. Back to Normal [7:12]
    15. Poker With the Boys [8:32]
    16. Huey's Accident [3:57]
    17. The Forest is Dying [2:30]
    18. The Solution [2:48]
    19. Lowell's Choice [5:14]
    20. Dewey's Forest (End Titles) [2:10]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Bruce Dern stars as the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a group of space stations that are sent into orbit. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains the last remaining greenery from the planet. Dern's staff includes three human beings and a trio of endearing robots named Huey, Dewey, and Louie. When word arrives from the Powers the Be that the greenhouse is to be destroyed (the space station is more valuable to man when hauling cargo and not "preserving the ecology of the universe"), Dern decides to ignore the order. He also decides to kill his colleagues, "circle the wagons" with Huey and Dewey, and fend off all outside attempts to eliminate his ecological paradise. Special-effects maven Douglas Trumbull directs, Michael Cimino was one of the screenwriters, and Peter "PDQ Bach" Schickele wrote the musical score. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    Silent Runningby Anonymous

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    November 14, 2005: Bruce Dern gives a moving performance as Botanist Freeman Lowell in this sci-fi masterpiece. Aside from the robots Huey and Dewey, who sometimes act more 'human' than Dern's character, the film raises an ethical question of whether someone should take the innocent life of another for one's own convictions and beliefs. For that reason, the movie is relevant today in the post-911 world as it was in 1971. A must see for anyone, not just sci-fi fans.

    Silent Runningby Anonymous

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    September 30, 2002: This is a nice well meaning movie about what could happen in the future. They have ships in space, a sort of floating habitat. Large domes that house plants and animals. When the government decides to destroy the domes, one man takes matters into his own hands. This movie seems to be a series of pasted on scenes. They don't always blend together properly and some don't fit at all. It's still worth seeing.


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