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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Silent running [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; a Michael Gruskoff/Douglas Trumbull production ; producer, Michael Gruskoff ; screenplay, Deric Washburn, Mike Cimino, Steve Bochco ; director, Douglas Trumbull.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal, 2002.

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A botanist has spent three 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, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest adventure of all with only two drone robots to keep him company.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: G.

Subjects:

Interplanetary voyages -- Drama.

Botanists -- Drama.

Robots -- Drama.

Feature films.

Science fiction films.

Closed captioning.

Other Author:

Gruskoff, Michael.

Washburn, Deric.

Cimino, Michael.

Bochco, Steven, 1943-2018

Trumbull, Douglas, 1942-2022

Dern, Bruce.

Potts, Cliff, 1945-

Rifkin, Ron.

Vint, Jesse.

Universal Pictures (Firm)

Other Title:

Making of Silent Running.

Notes:

Originally released as motion picture in 1971.

Special features: featurette, The Making of Silent Running; commentary with director, Douglas Trumbull and actor, Bruce Dern; featurette, Silent running by Douglas Trumbull; conversation with Bruce Dern; featurette, Douglas Trumbull: then and now; theatrical trailer; production notes; cast and filmmaker biographies.

Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint.

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

In English with optional Spanish or French soundtracks; closed-captioned.

ISBN:

0783255381

Publisher Number:

21243

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

1

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

159533

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Silent r

Medium:

[videorecording]