Soylent Green

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Soylent Green

PG

1973

1h 37m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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In a densely overpopulated, starving New York City of the future, NYPD detective Robert Thorn investigates the murder of an executive at rations manufacturer Soylent Corporation. With the help of elderly academic Solomon "Sol" Roth, Thorn begins to make real progress -- until the governor mysteriously pulls the plug. Obsessed with the mystery, Thorn steps out from behind the badge and launches his own investigation into the murder.

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Critics Consensus

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

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Penelope Gilliatt

The New Yorker

03/02/2024

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

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Matthew Rozsa

Salon.com

04/24/2023

4/4

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.

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Alan R. Howard

The Hollywood Reporter

04/23/2019

Soylent Green is Edward G. Robinson's movie. As a man who remembers the wonders of civilization before it died, he is witty, cultivated and endlessly appealing.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

06/09/2024

3/4

The grittiness of early-70s cinema works well for this fatalistic tale.

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Sean Axmaker

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10/28/2023

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.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

01/15/2022

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

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Yolanda

02/15/2025

I really love this movie.

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Michelle P

@Shell1967 Mar 21

Really enjoyed this film.

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tucker s

@tucker83014 Nov 5

Really horrible film written by someone who did not bother to study Malthus, economic history, or Tragedy of the Commons. If you're a climate change protester who likes to spray paint the Mona Lisa, you will probably love this film. Anyone else with the three digit IQ, not so much...

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Steven B

@RT77676529 Oct 4

If you can think and watched this movie you were awakened !. And then you were scared as hell as you can see where we are headed. Its a great lesson in history that "might" happen if we allow it. And its the great Edward G Robinsons last movie.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone Sep 21

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

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Alvin P

@RT40747927 Aug 14

Watched till the end only because a dear friend recommended it, and because that's 1.5 hrs of life I can never get back, I am considering ending that friendship. One of the worst film I've ever seen. So many dumb, laughable and illogical scenes. How in the world did it become a cult classic? Applying simple logic will tell you that the reveal in the end made no sense, that it couldn't have been a mystery that can be kept hidden with so many average people involved. I think one has to smoke a ton of weed to 'enjoy' this ridiculous film, because it must have been made by people who smoked a ton. I've seen many films from the 70s and I understand the limits of that era but this has got to be one with the most laughable acting as well.

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Synopsis

In a densely overpopulated, starving New York City of the future, NYPD detective Robert Thorn investigates the murder of an executive at rations manufacturer Soylent Corporation. With the help of elderly academic Solomon "Sol" Roth, Thorn begins to make real progress -- until the governor mysteriously pulls the plug. Obsessed with the mystery, Thorn steps out from behind the badge and launches his own investigation into the murder.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Producer: Walter Seltzer, Russell Thacher
Screenwriter: Harry Harrison, Stanley R. Greenberg
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Vídeo Arte
Production Co: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Rating: PG
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 9, 1973, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 24, 2008
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)