Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and, in his final film, Edward G. Robinson. The film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green". The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science... fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973. In 2022, the population has grown to forty million people in New York City alone. Housing is dilapidated and overcrowded; homeless people fill the streets and line fire escapes and stairways. Food is scarce; most of the population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation, whose newest product is Soylent Green, a small green wafer advertised to contain "high-energy plankton".
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| Release date: | April 19, 1973 |
| Directed by: | Richard Fleischer |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Producer: | Russel Thacher, Walter Seltzer |
| Editor: | Samuel E. Beetley |
| Music by: | Fred Myrow |
| Cinematography: | Richard H. Kline |
| Screenplay by: | Stanley R. Greenberg |
| Adapted from: | Make Room! Make Room! |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller |