QUIET EARTH, THE (1985). This film is one of the most significant films to have come from New Zealand, and is even more noteworthy as it is a science fiction/horror film. Directed by Geoff Murphy, The Quiet Earth tells the story of a scientist—played by Bruno Lawrence—and an experiment gone wrong; it is a time when all living creatures have disappeared from the Earth. After meeting two other remaining people, the group begins to realize the devastating consequences of what happened to them and to the Earth, and their relationships gradually collapse. The film was based on the novel by Craig Harrison, and was adapted for the screen by Lawrence, Bill Baer, and Sam Pillsbury. It won the best screenplay—adaptation in the 1987 New Zealand Film and Television Awards.