

Soylent Green
It's the year 2022. People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $3.6M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- paranoia
- dystopia
- greenhouse effect
- global warming
- overpopulation
- water shortage
- cannibal
- genocide
- murder investigation
- colony collapse disorder
- eutanasia
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PGLos Angeles, California18 Apr 1973
- Theatrical (limited)PGNew York City, New York19 Apr 1973
- TheatricalPG9 May 1973
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1531 May 1973
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM30 Jul 1973
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1218 Apr 1973
BrazilBR
- Theatrical27 Jul 1973
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP26 Jun 1974
- Digital / OTTFrance.tv22 Nov 2025
- TVFrance 322 Nov 2025
- TheatricalMondes possibles : la science-fiction sur grand écran, Institut Lumière, Lyon12 Jun 2026
- TheatricalMondes possibles : la science-fiction sur grand écran, Institut Lumière, Lyon5 Jul 2026
- TheatricalMondes possibles : la science-fiction sur grand écran, Institut Lumière, Lyon11 Jul 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1623 May 1974
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1516 Nov 1973
ItalyIT
- Theatrical4 Oct 1973
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical (limited)1218 Apr 1973
PolandPL
- Digital / OTT127 Nov 2002
SpainES
- Theatrical1812 Jan 1974
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Soylent Green was released on 18 April 1973.
Audience reviews
1- C4/10
Crazypiglady
12/31/2022
This story takes place in the bleak future of 2022 but it feels very much like 1973. There are some moments of inspiration but a number of tricks have been missed in imagining a dystopian future, notably race, gender and technology. I know that dystopia is supposed to be worse but it looks rather like 1973 instead of an degraded 2022. The story is good but almost everything else is dated. As such, it seems it may ben…
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