Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Silent Running (1972)

Yea...cool movie i say ;)
Released March 10th in the US.
Filmed entirely in California.
The story : Aboard the American Airlines Space freighter , in the distant future , are a group of men.
Their mission is to keep alive a forest aboard the craft , which is intended to replace the non existent forests on Earth.
Freeman Lowell is a man who takes this project very seriously , working hard for the past 8 years on the craft and living off the food he has been growing in the forest.
The rest of the men find this experiment humdrum and are ready , after only being on the craft for 6 months , to go back to Earth.
Freeman cannot understand why the other men dont find their work important and no matter what he cannot change how they think about it.
When the guys get word from the people in charge of their mission , that they are doing away with the forest and they will be able to go home after destroying it , everyone but Freeman is over joyed.
Freeman fights the good fight to change the other guys minds about destroying the forest but they are set on it.
When he feels like he has no other choice , he decides to get rid of the other guys to keep the forest alive.
Stars Bruce Dern , Ron Rifkin , Cliff Potts , Jesse Vint , Cheryl Sparks , Larry Whisenhunt , Mark Persons , Steven Brown , (voice) Joseph Campanella , (voice) Roy Engel
Directed by Douglas Trumbull
Rated G
SCIFI

"You don't think it's time that somebody cared enough to have a dream?"

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