Solarbabies
From a distant star a powerful and mystical force comes to Earth. And for those brave enough to follow, it will change their lives forever.
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
- 5.3
- 1986
- Released
- 1h 34m
Richard Jordan
Grock
Jami Gertz
Terra
Jason Patric
Jason
Lukas Haas
Daniel
James LeGros
Metron
Claude Brooks
Rabbit
Peter DeLuise
Tug
Peter Kowanko
Gavial
Adrian Pasdar
Darstar
Sarah Douglas
Shandray
Charles Durning
The Warden
Frank Converse
Greentree
Terrence Mann
Ivor
Alexei Sayle
Malice
Bruce Payne
Dogger
Willoughby Gray
Canis
Kelly Bishop
Tutore Nover
Released
en
$25,000,000.00
$1,579,260.00
- #dystopia
- #post-apocalyptic future
- #roller-skating
- #drought
- #gang violence
- #rebel gangs
- #hockey
Reviews
Well, I don't know what to say...honestly. I guess I can say that I loved it as a child, and it's getting the 10 of 10 based on remembering when I watched it through a child's eyes. But there are certain tropes with this genre, and it hits the shortage of water trope, and the roller skate trope, but misses a lot of the others. So I do feel like it doesn't really sit well with the genre it's mad