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Hollywood isn’t all that environmentally conscious. That’s what I discovered while compiling a list of movies that bring to mind our fine planet Earth, our ever-important environment and the worldwide need for cooperation in protecting our precious home.

I literally spent hours compiling the list below, and I don’t necessarily like all of these movies. These are just the ones that popped into my head when thinking about the Big Blue Marble. To protect the innocent, I left out stuff like Pauley Shore’s Biodome and anything directed by Joel Schumacher.

Yes, the list contains many science fiction films and disaster epics. It’s as if Hollywood execs think: “Uh … Earth’s a primary subject? Well, then Earth’s gotta go boom or start leaking or something.”

I guess we’ll have to keep waiting for Sparky: The Magical Recycling Dingo.

Apollo 13
(1995)
National icon Tom Hanks is stuck in space, going around the dark side of the moon, salivating as he spies Mother Earth through a frosty capsule window. Never before, or since, has the idea of just needing the gravity and malt shops that Earth provides been portrayed so vividly.

Waterworld
(1995)
The polar icecaps melt, and Earth becomes one gigantic swimming pool. It also provides Kevin Costner with the chance to don one ugly-assed set of tights and grow gills. This film explores the nasty possibilities posed by global warming, and if memory serves me right, dead humans are recycled for their energy possibilities. It’s a strange film, one in which Costner’s character has had enough time to mutate into a man-fish since the Earth became a big puddle (that should’ve taken thousands, maybe millions of years), yet the movie postulates that cigarettes from when the Earth was normal would not have rotted away during the interim. Dennis Hopper is always smoking a cigarette in this movie! Somebody please explain this to me!

Blast From the Past
(1999)
A scientist (Christopher Walken) who thinks the Earth h

Actors

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) is an American actor, singer, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and dancer, who has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs, including Annie Hall (1977), with Woody Allen (who also directed) and Diane Keaton; David Cronenberg‘s The Dead Zone (1983), with Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen, Anthony Zerbe and Colleen Dewhurst; Tim Burton‘s Batman Returns (1992), with Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Danny DeVito; Tony Scott‘s True Romance (1993), with Christian Bale, Patricia Arquette, James Gandolfini, Dennis Hopper, Michael Rapaport, Bronson Pinchot, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, and Brad Pitt; Quentin Tarantino‘s Pulp Fiction (1994), with John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, and Bruce Willis; Blast from the Past (1999), with Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, and Dave Foley; Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999), with Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Christopher Lee, and Jeffrey Jones; Scott’s Man on Fire (2004), with Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin, and Mickey Rourke; Martin McDonagh‘s Seven Psychopaths (2012), with Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, and Željko Ivanek; and many others.

He has received a number of awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter (1978), with Robert De Niro, John Cazale, and Meryl Streep. He was nominated for the same award and won BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Steven Spielberg‘s Catch Me If You Can (2002), with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Nathalie Baye, Sheen, and Amy Adams. His films have grossed more than $1 billion in the United States.

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Geraldine Chaplin (b. 1944) has always been a spectacular actress. Of course, when hearing or reading about Chaplin, the first thing that comes to mind is British-born screen legend Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) and the immortal character of The Tramp, first introduced on February 7, 1914, when the Keystone comedy short “Kid Auto Races at Venice” was released. And the rest, as we all know, is history. The film pioneer became a universal icon, a trendsetter, and the greatest comic genius the world has ever known. In terms of filmmaking, from acting, directing, producing, writing, and composing, to running his own Hollywood studio, located on La Brea Avenue—he did everything—he is considered the single most important artist and an unprecedented key figure in the history of filmmaking.

Charlie Chaplin’s first appearance as The Tramp in his second short, “Kid Auto Races at Venice” in February, 1914, written and directed by Henry Lehrman. Two months later, at the early age of twenty-five, Mr. Chaplin began to write and direct his own work.

But Ms. Chaplin, the fourth child of Sir Charles Spencer ‘Charlie’ Chaplin, and the first of his eight children with his fourth wife Oona O’Neill (1925-1991), is and has always been a very accomplished and highly skilled leading, supporting and character actress who first rose to prominence in David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), based on the 1958 Boris Pasternak novel. The film, as well as her outstanding portrayal of Tonya, Zhivago’s childhood sweetheart and later loyal and steadfast wife, marked the start of a very prolific acting career that to this day, over fifty years later, is still going strong.

Throughout her career, the much sought after and perfectly multilingual actress appeared in over one hundred fifty continental films, including several made in France and most of all in Spain, and English-language films she made on both sides of the Atlantic. Ms. Chaplin won multiple film awards and

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