TY - ADVS AU - Baez,Joan AU - Bochco,Steven AU - Cimino,Michael AU - Dern,Bruce AU - Gruskoff,Michael AU - Potts,Cliff AU - Rifkin,Ron AU - Schickele,Peter AU - Trumbull,Douglas AU - Vint,Jesse AU - Washburn,Deric ED - Universal Pictures (Firm) TI - Silent running SN - 0783255381 PY - 2002/// CY - Universal City, CA PB - Universal KW - Botanists KW - Drama KW - Climatic changes KW - Interplanetary voyages KW - Robots KW - Environmental films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Fiction films KW - Science fiction films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - 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; Music, Peter Schickele; songs sung by Joan Baez ; director of photography, Charles F. Wheeler ; editor, Aaron Stell; Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint; MPAA rating: G N2 - 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 ER -