MOVIE · 1985
The Quiet Earth
DramaMysterySci-FiThriller91 min
Scientist Zac Hobson wakes to an impossible silence: after a top-secret experiment misfires, he may be the only man left alive in the world. Bruno Lawrence is Zac, moving through an emptied New Zealand and trying to make sense of abandoned homes, dead phone lines, and a world that seems to have stopped overnight. The isolation shifts when he finds two other survivors, with Alison Routledge and Pete Smith joining the story as strangers who may offer answers, company, or another kind of danger. What begins as a lone-man apocalypse steadily turns into a mystery about the experiment, the vanished population, and what kind of reality Zac has been left in.
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