The Quiet Earth

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Title

The Quiet Earth

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In director Geoff Murphy's cult sci-fi feature, a global energy project has malfunctioned and scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakes to find himself the only living being left on earth. At first he lives out his fantasies, helping himself to cars and clothes, before the implications of being 'man alone' sink in. As this awareness sends him to the brink of madness — see the excerpt above — he discovers two other survivors. One of them is a woman. The Los Angeles Daily News called the mov...

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Video

Date created

1985

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-quiet-earth-1985

Related subjects

apocalypse / science fiction / love triangle / nuclear / man alone / male nudity

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