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Soylent Green

1973 · Movie · 97 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer71%as of 2024-10-31
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.1/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic66/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

Soylent Green is a 1973 American 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! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a police procedural.

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Genres
Science fiction / Drama
Original language
English

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