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Silent Running

Summary: In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

Release Date: March 10, 1972

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Douglas Trumbull

Writers: Deric Washburn

, Michael Cimino

, Steven Bochco

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: G

Production: Universal Pictures, Trumbull/Gruskoff Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MCA/Universal Home Video, Image Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

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