SOYLENT GREEN (1973)

 




















Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Based on the novel "Make Room! Make Room!" by: Harry Harrison
Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Whit Bissell, Celia Lovsky, Dick Van Patten

97 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
The year is 2022. Overcrowding, pollution and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green, an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn is a tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.

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