GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Solarbabies (1986)
Info:
- Release Date: November 26, 1986
- Creators: Alan Johnson (director), Walon Green (writer)
- Genre: Futuristic Rollerskating Movie
- Rating: ★★★★★
Plot:
- Futuristic evil-doers are hoarding the entire water supply, making regular denizens bow and scrape to their petty rules. The roller skating gang Solarbabies ("because they don't need a tough name - they always seem to win"), inspired by a glowing orb rebel against the water-hoarding E-Police and cross the desert to find a better life. Many Mad Max ecological adventures ensue.
Notes:
- Gotta love any future orphanage that has tie-dye uniforms and mandatory skating time
- The awful 'fun & games' with the Bodhi scene (including all of them frolicking in the rain and Rabbit's wacky break dancing moves)
- The plucky Solarbabies having to dig 20 cubic meters in the desert for punishment
- The threat of unspecified "surgical alteration" as punishment
- Tug managing to find beer in an abandoned cave
- The Solarbabies running into Jesus, er, Terra's dad, hoarding a glacier and raising lambs somewhere under Tire Town
- Darstar sniffling over the death of his beloved bird
- Terra's bangs sticking directly up in the air during her heart-to-heart with Darstar
- Gavail, looking sexy-as-all-get-out in a cool E-Police uniform
Cast:
- Jason Patric as Jason
- Jami Gertz as Terra
- Lukas Haas as Daniel
- Adrian Pasdar as Darstar
- Peter Kowanko as Gavail
- Peter DeLuise as Tug
- James Le Gros as Metron
- Claude Brooks as Rabbit
- Richard Jordan as Grock
- Sarah Douglas as Shandray
- Charles Durning as Warden
- Bruce Payne as Dogger
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