All the trees are gone from the earth. Scientist-astronaut Freeman Lovell (Dern) is a crewmember on a spaceship carrying miniature ecological niches in giant greenhouses -- perhaps someday to seed other planets. Orders come from earth to give up the mission and destroy the ecocultures, but Dern mutinies with the help of some miniature robots nicknamed Huey, Louis and Dewey. For once the scraggly, crotchety persona that has made Dern a heavy in so many other movies makes him an ecological hero in this 1971 film, whose pedigree is pretty interesting: first-time director Douglas Trumbull had done special effects work on 2001 and The Andromeda Strain; co-writers were Michael Cimino and Deric Washburn (both later to work on The Deer Hunter), and Steven Bochco (LA Law, NYPD Blue). The film was scored by Peter Schickele!
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The review of this Movie prepared by David Loftus
