Faithful Reader and I recently watched Silent Running, not to be confused with The Running Man, Blade Runner, or Logan’s Run, and certainly not with Cool Runnings.
In this peculiar movie, the last few forests of Earth have been moved to spaceships, where they are kept against the day that someone decides to reforest the planet. The crewmen react with excitement when they are ordered to nuke the forests and return home, all except the tree-hugging character played by Bruce Dern. He refuses to accept the order, and he kills his colleagues rather than destroy his beloved plants.
This is a thoughtful movie, not an action-packed one. Released in 1972, it has a definite dated quality to it. That said, I have to admit that I liked parts of it. I’ll certainly never think about cantaloupe in quite the same way again.