Soylent Green

(1973)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 1,481 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery

Year: 1973

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Ричард Флейшер

Cast: Чарлтон Хестон, Leigh Taylor-Young, Чак Коннорс, Джозеф Коттен, Brock Peters, Паула Келли, Эдвард Робинсон, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Plot

In 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.

In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted, and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes a food consisting of plankton from the oceans. In New York City, when Soylent's member of the board, William R. Simonson, is murdered, apparently by a burglar at the Chelsea Towers West where he lives, efficient Detective Thorn is assigned to investigate the case with his partner Solomon "Sol" Roth. Thorn comes to the fancy apartment and meets Simonson's bodyguard Tab Fielding and the "furniture" (woman that is rented together with the flat) Shirl and the detective concludes that the executive was not a burglary victim but executed. Further, he finds that the Governor Santini and other powerful men want to disrupt and end Thorn's investigation. But Thorn continues his work and discovers a bizarre, disturbing secret of the ingredient used to manufacture Soylent Green.