Soylent Green (1973)

Name: Soylent Green
Released: 1973
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters

• Movies, Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

• 97 min

6.9

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

Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Casting: 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, Morgan Farley, John Barclay, Belle Mitchell, Cyril Delevanti, Faith Quabius, Jane Dulo, John Dennis, Jan Bradley, Carlos Romero, Pat Houtchens, Joyce Williams, Erica Hagen, Beverly Gill, Suesie Eejima, Cheri Howell, Kathy Silva, Jennifer King, Marion Charles, Molly Dodd, Gwen Farrell, Bern Hoffman, Robert Ito, Nora Marlowe, Ida Mae McKenzie, Richard Sterne, Jeff Winkless, Tim Herbert, Forrest Wood
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1973-04-18
Status: Released

Tags: 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

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.