Silent Running

Starring: Bruce Dern Director: Douglas Trumbull  Rated:

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
• Dolby Digital 2.0 - French
• Dolby Digital 2.0 - Spanish

Additional Release Material:

• Audio Commentary - 1. Douglas Trumbell - Director, Bruce Dern - Star
• Making-of - 1. "The Original Making-of Featurette"
                   2. "The Making of Silent Running"
• Documentary - 1. "Douglas Trumbell: Then and Now"

Interactive Features:

• Scene Access
• Interactive Menus

Text/Photo Galleries:

• Stills/Photos - 1. "The Making of the Film illustrated with Behind-the-Scenes Photographs"

Product Description:

In a grim future, Earth is so overdeveloped plants can no longer survive. Giant greenhouses in orbit carry samples of Earth's dying forests. When the government decides they are too expensive to maintain, one committed crew member will stop at nothing to save them. Screenplay by Steven Bochco and Michael Cimino. Music by Peter "PDQ Bach" Schickele.

Plot Synopsis:

Plant-loving botanist Freeman Lowell happily carries out his duties on the spaceship Valley Forge, a giant orbiting greenhouse which contains the last remaining samples of flora from a now-barren Earth. When Lowell is ordered to destroy his cargo and return home, he mutinies, kills his more obedient shipmates, and sets out for the far reaches of space with his robot companions Huey and Dewey in tow.

Plot Keywords:

Betrayal | Essential Cinema | Murder | Recommended | Robots / Cyborgs | Tear Jerker | Theatrical Release | Wilderness

Production Notes:

• Theatrical Release: March 10, 1972.
• "Silent Running" marked the directorial debut of special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).
• Mark Persons, Steven Brown, Cheryl Sparks, and Larry Whisenhunt played Huey and Dewey, Freeman Lowell's robot companions. All four are bilateral amputees making their acting debuts.

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