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Name: Soylent Green
Released: 1973-5-9
Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters

Soylent Green

PG
1h 33m
1973

70%

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New York. 2022 A.D. Teeming with jobless, homeless people. Teetering on the edge of anarchy, the government rations synthetic food. Those who control the supply have unlimited wealth and power--as long as no one discovers the awful truth behind the source of Soylent Green. Academy Award-winner Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments) stars as Thorn, possibly the last honest detective on the undermanned police force, who investigates the brutal murder of a prominent member of the Soylent Company, manufacturers of the artificial nourishment. During the course of his probe, Thorn discovers the horrifying main ingredient of the mass-produced food. Caught between personal integrity, the quest for justice and knowledge that could lead to the death of millions, will Thorn expose the deadly secret?

Director:

John McGiver

Producer:

Walter Seltzer, Russell Thacher

Writer:

Stanley Greenberg

Cast:

Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Whit Bissell, Celia Lovsky, Dick Van Patten

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

70%

Critics Consensus: While admittedly melodramatic and uneven in spots, Soylent Green ultimately succeeds with its dark, plausible vision of a dystopian future.

Reviews

New Yorker

Penelope Gilliatt

This pompously prophetic thing of a film hasn’t a brain in its beanbag.

Where so many science fiction visions of the era have dated, this gritty creation of a depressed (and depressing) future recycling the junk of the past, and where assisted suicide has become simply another social option, looks all the more real.

Its greatest attribute is not that it accurately anticipated many things about humanity's future. "Soylent Green" stands the test of time because it does these things while slamming you right where real anxiety festers and brews . . . in your guts.

Not a terribly good movie, it's nonetheless not a bad guess at a future...

Grounded in such a recognizable reality that the science-fiction elements are almost indiscernible.

August 31, 2020

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