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Synopsis. In the year 2022, the population has grown to 40 million people in New York City alone. Most housing is dilapidated and overcrowded, and the homeless fill the streets and line the fire escapes, stairways of buildings, abandoned cars, subway platforms, etc. Unemployment is at around 50%.
Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room!
May 9, 1973 · Soylent Green: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten. A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
- (71K)
- Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Richard Fleischer
- 1973-05-09
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.
Feb 8, 2021 · When William R. Simonson ( Joseph Cotten ), a 68-year-old wealthy lawyer living in a luxury high-rise apartment building called Chelsea Towers West turns up dead, the police send Thorn to investigate it. Once at the crime scene, Thorn talks with the building’s superintendent Charles ( Philip Stone ).
- Richard Fleischer
In a densely overpopulated, starving New York City of the future, NYPD detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates the murder of an executive at rations manufacturer Soylent Corporation.
- (40)
- Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
- PG
Brief Synopsis. A future cop uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.
