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Soylent Green

1973 · directed by Richard Fleischer · 97 min · PG
24,081 feet · Prominence
841st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw44

Lifetime worldwide gross $4m, re-releases included; about $27m in 2026 money.

Rank5,451 of 11,051In 197328 of 48

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise70

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics70 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy65

Judged directly: 'Soylent Green is people!' permanent catchphrase.

Verdict65 of 100IMDb7 from 75kWikipedia76k views a monthAge53 years

Scored beside it · 434 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 44 praise 70 legacy 65averages 60, placing it at24,081 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Chuck Connors▲ Leigh Taylor-Young

In these careers — elevation for this film

Charlton Heston19,945 ftLeigh Taylor-Young17,998 ftChuck Connors17,911 ftJoseph Cotten17,843 ftStephen Young17,752 ftMike Henry17,623 ft