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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 movie “quite simply the best science-fiction film of the 80s”. Read more about it here.
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Bruno Lawrence in a scene from The Quiet Earth.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.

Bruno Lawrence in a scene from The Quiet Earth .
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.

Bruno Lawrence in a scene from The Quiet Earth.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.


Bruno Lawrence as Zac Hobson addressing an empty world in a scene from The Quiet Earth
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Quiet Earth director Geoff Murphy and lead actor Bruno Lawrence, during the making of the film.
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Actor Bruno Lawrence and director Geoff Murphy, during the making of The Quiet Earth (1985).
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Actors Peter Smith and Alison Routledge in a scene from The Quiet Earth .
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