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''Silent Running'' is an environmentally-themed [[Science Fiction Films|Science Fiction Movie]] from 1972 directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Bruce Dern.
In the future, the environment of Earth has been destroyed, with the only plant and animal life left being preserved in domed forests aboard American Airlines space freighters in orbit around Saturn. Freeman Lowell, a botanist and apparently the only remaining environmentalist in the world, tends to the forests religiously and hopes that they can one day be returned to Earth and used to restore it to its natural state. When the decision to reassign the freighters and destroy the domes is made, Freeman becomes obsessed with protecting them. He kills his crewmates and escapes with the last dome, assisted by three robot drones he names [[DuckTales (1987)|Huey, Dewey, and Louie]]. He must then escape discovery and survive a collision with Saturn's rings.
Not to be confused with the song of the same name by [[Mike and the Mechanics]].
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* [[Cute Machines]]: Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
** Which ironically were played by double amputees.
* [[Explosions in Space]]: A relatively accurate
* [[Green Aesop]]
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Lowell has been taking care of the plants for years, then near the end of the film when he's on the wrong side of Saturn, comes to suddenly realize the reason they're dying is they need sunlight.
* [[Latex Space Suit]]
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: For the most part, falls under [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness/One Big Lie|One Big Lie]]
* [[Product Placement]]: American Airlines will last for centuries apparently.
* [[Terra Deforming]]: The government policy that leads to the events of the film.
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