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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569647640
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 45348
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Editorial Review:
Description:
The is 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 - an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Now this IS a thriller!
Brushing aside the obviously-dated special effects, this film is amazing. It's a commentary on how people have to take care of the earth--or else the earth itself litterally 'takes care of us'.
With real food at scarce levels, everybody in the crumbling societies is now attempting to survive on 'soylent' for nutrition, but what is it REALLY made of? Such plot also has allusions to the then-emergent health food movement, which was still fairly 'countercultural' as opposed to the comparative ... Read More
Rating: - The price of strawberries in the year 2022
This is one of those bleak future movies where there is a finite amount of resources and an unbalanced distribution of them. The one good point is that food processing as been perfected to the point that we get tasty blocs of colored nutrients. The best one, publicized as being made from plankton Soylent Green.
Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is tasked with investigating a homicide in a ritzy section of town. During the investigation he, with the help of his friend Sol Roth (Edward ... Read More
Rating:  - Very disappointing....
This film had great potential, but it blew it badly. Everyone by now knows the plot and the famous catch phrase "Soylent Green is people!" (it's now cinema folklore). While the idea of the film (overpopulation, evil corporation) is excellent, any impact the film may have is thwarted by bad dialogue, cheesy music, uneven editing, and worst of all, Richard Fleischer's lumbering, ponderous direction. Fleischer is a particularly bad director (he directed such awful films like Che!, Doctor Dolittle, and the ... Read More
Rating: - More compelling than "An Inconvenient Truth"
Also science fiction, but made in 1972 and without any political waffle (and starring an actor many would pin as "Conservative"), this movie projects - some 50 years into its future - a frightening set of events:
* overpopulation
* polluted atmosphere
* global warming causing high temperatures
* unusual food sources
* cynicism
Charleton Heston plays Thorn, a duty-driven cop/detective, assigned to find out why an executive from the Soylent corporation was murdered... ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant....
This film is a work of genius; a truely terrifying portrail of a highly probable distant future. The acting is superb, the music cannot be ignored, and like the other reviewer pointed out, the final lines of the film are highly memorable.
However, there are those out there who may view this film as "boring". These are the same individuals who fail to realize that, before the sweeping changes in special effects brought about with Star Wars, science fiction was generally intelligent. So no, if you're looking for ... Read More
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