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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569799998
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 1403
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: - The Future?
Saw this movie when it was originally made and thought it was well done, sets you to thinking about what the future could become as we become more careless. Had to add it to my collection.
Rating: - A Disturbing Depiction of the Future
Released in 1973 and starring Charlton Heston, Brock Peters and EG Robinson, Soylent Green is a disturbing yet progressive story that leaves you thinking and questioning what you eat in the end! The story is set in the future - the year 2022. There are 40,000,000 people in New York City alone. Overpopulation caused environmental problems and a food shortage. Only the wealthiest people can afford luxuries such as soap, liquor, strawberries and meat. The government contracted with the Soylent Corporation ... Read More
Rating:  - wdixon
I absolutely love this movie. Scary yes. In a way since the line between fiction and realism is so thin. At least there is a way to escape peacefully in this not so farfetched depiction of the future.
Rating: - "The seas are dying..."
Richard Fleischer's* 1973 "Soylent Green" both has and hasn't aged well.
From a cinematic perspective, the film sometimes (although not always) comes across in that semi-seedy, vaguely polyester way so successfully lampooned in the Austin Powers film. Clothes styles are just a little over the top (even in a dying world), emotional expressions are just a little too forceful, blood is just a little too red, and villains just a bit too villainous. Nor does it help that Heston's acting is rather ... Read More
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