Brainstorm 1983  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Alan Fudge, Georgianne Walken, Bill Morey, Joe Dorsey, Jason Lively, Jordan Christopher, Donald Hotton, Darrell Larson, Lou Walker, John Hugh, Stacey Kuhne-Adams
Special effects are outstanding in this sci-fi story about what happens when an invention that sends sensory inputs into the brain ends up in the wrong hands. Scientists Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace (Louise Fletcher and Christopher Walken) have been experimenting with their invention that can record sights, sounds, and feelings after the brain receives sensory messages. Michael uses the invention to get closer to his estranged wife Karen (Natalie Wood), and others begin to abuse it. Representing the government, Alex Terson (Cliff Robertson) steps in to take over the project. Problems ensue, and, after one worker tapes the experience of his own death, Michael is determined to play back the tape to honor his memory.
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Silent Running 1971  G, 89 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Steve Brown, Cheryl Sparks, Joseph Campanella, Roy Engel, Larry Whisenhunt
Special effects are worth the price of admission for this film in which Bruce Dern plays the leader of a group of space scientists whose spaceship is the greenhouse supply for Earth's last vegetation. Joan Baez sings the environmental songs.
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| 1. Brainstorm (1983)
2. Silent Running (1971)
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