The Springfield Free Public Library is hosting their lunchtime film series. Today's film is Soylent Green (1973). In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. Charlton Heston plays a tough homicide detective who stumbles onto a terrible secret about the government's activities. Edward G. Robinson, in his last film, plays a retiree facing mandatory euthanasia. Also starring Chuck Connors and Leigh Taylor-Young. Directed by Richard Fleischer. This film is 98 minutes and Rated PG.
Funding for the film program is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, and by the Friends of the Springfield Public Library.
The series will continue every other Monday through December 12, 2011. For specific titles and more information about the series, see the Library's website or call us at (973)376-4930. Admission is free. Patrons can bring a brown bag lunch to the program - coffee, tea and cookies will be served at 11:30am. Assistive listening devices are available upon request for those who need them. The Springfield Free Public Library is located at 66 Mountain Ave., Springfield, NJ 07081.
