Soylent Green
It's the year 2022. People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green.
1973 • 97 min • Science Fiction · Crime · Mystery
Synopsis
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.
Our family guide
Best from age 13- 0 Reviewers · 1 · 51%
- 69 Audience · 1458 · 49%
In a dystopian 2022, Detective Thorn investigates a murder, uncovering a shocking truth about the resource-depleted, overpopulated world and its primary food source, Soylent Green.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 2/10
- Scary moments
- 6/10
Heads up
- Discussions of environmental catastrophe
- Implied cannibalism
- Disturbing euthanasia scenes
What it models well
- Truth-seeking
- Justice
- Environmental awareness
Talk about it after
- Resource scarcity and its impact
- Societal control and individual freedom
- Ethics of desperate solutions
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Top billed cast
Director: Richard Fleischer • Crew: Stanley R. Greenberg
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Reviewer notes
Not recommendedTrusted family reviewersThis 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.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.9/10 (1,458)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Box office
- $3,600,000
- IMDb
- tt0070723
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