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Solarbabies

Solarbabies (1986) Movie Poster
  •  USA  •    •  94m  •    •  Directed by: Alan Johnson.  •  Starring: Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, James Le Gros, Claude Brooks, Peter DeLuise, Peter Kowanko, Adrian Pasdar, Sarah Douglas, Charles Durning, Frank Converse, Terrence Mann.  •  Music by: Maurice Jarre.
        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 stormtroopers search for them and the orb.

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Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
Image from: Solarbabies (1986)
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This movie has most obviously been made on a very tight budget. It becomes obvious by the fact that the big bad government's military is represented by a surprisingly small number of units including two tanks and eight soldiers only. Thus, it needs a little imagination to believe the story of a few kids fighting a huge Nazi-like system. Furthermore, most costumes seem to be recycled from other movies. Uniforms quite similar to those used by the bad guys have been seen in "Dune" and "Battlestar Galactica" before. So, I felt it to be a little hard to get myself into the right mood for letting my mind go.

Nonetheless, the film has a message to tell, and even though that message has been around quite a few times, I found it worthwhile watching.


Review by andre-71 from the Internet Movie Database.

 
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