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dern

American  
[durn] / dɜrn /

adjective

Dialect.
  1. darn.


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Bruce Dern plays their caretaker, a man who refuses the order to destroy them and is left alone on the ship, tending the plants and teaching his small drone companions to help him.

From Los Angeles Times

Released amid the environmental movement of the early 1970s, the film was a modest success at the time but later became a cult favorite, in large part due to Dern’s offbeat performance and the handmade quality of its world.

From Los Angeles Times

Those who grew up with the film will be struck by the distinct mid-’90s film grain dusted onto Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, both of whom have been uncannily de-aged.

From Slate

Xfinity’s first-ever Big Game bid utilizes de-aging software to bring Jurassic Park stars Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill back to the ’90s.

From Slate

A Hudson nomination for “Song Sung Blue” would make her and Hawn the third daughter-mother duo to each have multiple nominations, after Minnelli/Garland and Dern/Ladd.

From Los Angeles Times