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Soylent Green
1973
· Movie
· 97 min
B
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2125
- IMDb #2230
- Google retired #1192
- Rotten Tomatoes #2315
- Metacritic #2010
- Letterboxd #2215
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2567
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2594
- Metacritic Critics #1887
- Metacritic Audience #2414
- Criticker #1542
- AlloCiné #616
Every rating
51–90
out of 100
In an overpopulated, polluted, and dying future New York City, a cynical police detective investigates the murder of a wealthy executive who worked for the company that produces the world's food supply, a processed food called Soylent Green. His investigation leads him to a horrific discovery about the true source of the food that the masses depend on for survival.
Details
- Director
- Richard Fleischer
- Writer
- Stanley R. Greenberg
- Based on
- Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 18 April 1973
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish, Hebrew
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- PG
- Box office
- $3.6M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 2nd Saturn Awards 1975 | Best Science Fiction Film | Winner |
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1 awards — Soylent Green
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2nd Saturn Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Science Fiction Film | Winner |