ZPG: Zero Population Growth

I loved the staging and the sets, right down to the funky white (read for sterile) outfits and the sociological fly on the wall insight into the lives of the two protagonists desperate to enrich their seemingly emtpy lives/failing relationship by breaking the ultimate taboo. I guess in many ways I was primed for this kind of thing by reading lots of Ray Bradbury growing up and I adored the stark funky realism of the whole gas and curfew thing!

Let me simply say that if you have an Arty eye towards Sci-Fi and the sociological, loved films like Soylent Green and Farenheit 451 then this movie will not dissapoint you! I loved it and I think *getting it* is what this movie requires from the viewer.


The word ZERO in the title should give you a hint...   April 14, 2000
Mistrmind (MA)
6 out of 19 found this review helpful

I'd guess Oliver Reed was on a drunken drinking binge when he signed up for this stinker. It's the near future and the world is overpopulated. So overpopulated, that the governments of the world can no longer feed or support so many people. Their solution? Pass a law that no one can have children for 30 years, until the population dies down sufficiently. Thus you have the title Zero Population Growth (or known as ZPG). During the 30 year period, anyone found having children is publically executed along with the new-born infant. Reed plays a husband, who, along with his wife attempt to defy the law and raise a family in secret. Lousy acting and special effects all around. A dismal story that leaves you quite depressed in the end.


Brilliant, but need it on DVD!   November 10, 2003
E. Botsford (Brooklyn, NY United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

A truly amazing film for lovers of 70's apocolyptic sci-fi. The movie is a must-see for everyone who relishes end-of-the-world, Soylent Green-esque environmental disaster films. Plus, who couldn't love the creepy psychiatrist and the baby-simulacra. One thing, WE NEED THIS ON DVD!


Zero Population Growth - a movie for the times   April 7, 2001
Greg D. Herzberger (Cleveland,Ohio)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful

This flick came out during the early 70's and seemed to be a "B" movie all the way round-Had appeal to college age, counter culture movement type folks. depraved new world, big brother is watching and so forth. It seemed that parts were either missing or else cut for budgets sake-the acting was strange but then so were we when we went to see it. The other reviews got the plot down ok so no need to elaborate. Still and all there is a certain pessimistic appeal to the work and in that vein it mirrors the cultural goings on of the early 70's - paralleling woodstock giving way to the altamont rock festival-dark clouds gathering , stormy weather ahead. From that standpoint, I think its worth seeing.


It was an ok movie   May 2, 2002
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

I thought it was a pretty good movie. It showed what it would be like it the world was over-populated and they had to take drastic measures to stop the population growth.