Film Forum

U.S., 1973
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten, Edward G. Robinson
Approx. 97 min.

“New York in the year 2022, when the population has swollen to an unbelievable 80 million, and people live in the streets and line up for their rations of water and Soylent Green. That’s a high-protein foodstuff allegedly made from plankton cultivated in the seas. But is it? Charlton Heston plays a gritty detective who gets called in when a top official of the Soylent Corp. (Joseph Cotten) is murdered. He gets on a trail that leads to a most unappetizing conclusion—but before he gets there, the movie paints a fascinating and scary picture of population growth run wild.” – Roger Ebert

Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

Reviews

“SOYLENT GREEN champions film’s transcendent power not only to replicate the real world, but also to enhance one’s appreciation of life’s boundless wonders.”
– Slant Magazine