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Release Date: 1973

Cast: Robert Ito, Brock Peters, Ida Mae McKenzie, Leonard Stone, Dick Van Patten, Joseph Cotten, Stephen Young, Edward G. Robinson, Celia Lovsky, Paula Kelly, Leigh Taylor-Young, Richard Sterne ...MORE

Cast: Robert Ito, Brock Peters, Ida Mae McKenzie, Leonard Stone, Dick Van Patten, Joseph Cotten, Stephen Young, Edward G. Robinson, Celia Lovsky, Paula Kelly, Leigh Taylor-Young, Richard Sterne, Mike Henry, Whit Bissell, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction

Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green". The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry... MORE

Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green". The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973. In 2022, the population has grown to forty million people in New York City alone. Housing is dilapidated and overcrowded; homeless people fill the streets and line fire escapes and stairways. Food is scarce; most of the population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation, whose newest product is Soylent Green, a small green wafer advertised to contain "high-energy plankton". It is more nutritious and palatable than the other varieties but is in short supply, which LESS