Soylent Green

Watch: Soylent Green

4/19/19731h 37m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ It's the year 2022. People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green. ~

Overview:

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

Director:

Richard Fleischer

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$3,600,000.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
paranoia
dystopia
greenhouse effect
global warming
overpopulation
water shortage
cannibal
genocide
murder investigation
colony collapse disorder
eutanasia
assisted suicide
crime against humanity
murder case
food shortage
societal collapse
processing plant
environmental collapse

Cast

Charlton Heston

~ as ~

Detective Robert Thorn

Leigh Taylor-Young

~ as ~

Shirl

Chuck Connors

~ as ~

Tab Fielding

Joseph Cotten

~ as ~

William R. Simonson

Brock Peters

~ as ~

Chief Hatcher

Paula Kelly

~ as ~

Martha Phillips

Edward G. Robinson

~ as ~

Sol Roth

Stephen Young

~ as ~

Gilbert

Mike Henry

~ as ~

Kulozik

Lincoln Kilpatrick

~ as ~

The Priest

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Reviews (1)

Crazypiglady
Written 2 year(s) ago
4
This story takes place in the bleak future of 2022 but it feels very much like 1973. There are some moments of inspiration but a number of tricks have been missed in imagining a dystopian future, notably race, gender and technology. I know that dystopia is supposed to be worse but it looks rather like 1973 instead of an degraded 2022. The story is good but almost everything else is dated. As such, it seems it may benefit from a remake but I think the reason it hasn't been remade is probably because it has actually be rebooted a number of times in other films and its actually a fairly simple plot.