Silent Running ( Running Silent )

Silent Running (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Running Silent
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1972 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Douglas Trumbull

Written By:
Deric Washburn
Michael Cimino

Actors:
Bruce Dern ..... Freeman Lowell
Cliff Potts ..... John Keenan
Ron Rifkin ..... Marty Barker
Jesse Vint ..... Andy Wolf
Mark Persons ..... Drone 2 - Huey
Steven Brown ..... Drone
Cheryl Sparks ..... Drone 1 - Dewey
Larry Whisenhunt ..... Drone

Synopsis:

Three years after helping to achieve some of the most amazing imagery in cinema history with 2001: A Space Odyssey, special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull made an auspicious directorial debut at age 29 with the environmentally themed science fiction classic Silent Running. In the distant future, plant life on our planet is extinct. Remaining specimens are cultivated in vast greenhouse-like domes orbiting in space. Bruce Dern (Marnie, Coming Home, The 'burbs, Monster) stars as Freeman Lowell, dedicated botanist aboard the 'Valley Forge', awaiting the call to refoliate Earth - despite the scorn of his crewmates. When an order comes to instead destroy the domes and return home, Lowell takes matters into his own hands, beginning a long and lonely voyage into the unknown. With its remarkable special effects (especially the robot drones Huey, Dewey, and Louie); glorious score (including songs performed by Joan Baez); memorable sound effects (created by Joseph Byrd from the cult band The United States of America); a screenplay co-written by Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues), and an impassioned central performance from Dern, Silent Running remains a uniquely contemplative and haunting adventure that continues to make hippies of young children, even today.

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 that 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 go it alone, 'circle the wagons' with his robots, 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.

In a future time people on Earth have come to accept life without foliage of any kind. Orbiting the Sun in a space freighter, Dern is part of a government project to develop botanical gardens with which to re-foliate the planet. Ordered to destroy the plants and return to Earth, he goes berserk.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 February, 2012.

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