Solarbabies (1986)

US:: PG-13 Science Fiction

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.

Updated May 11 2020

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1986-11-26

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Keywords:

post-apocalyptic future roller-skating teenager dystopian future drought

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Runtime: 94 mins Revenue: $1,579,260 Budget: $25,000,000 Rating: 5.1 Tag Line: Who will rule the future?

Cast

Lukas Haas

Father August

Alexei Sayle

Sultan

Charles Durning

James Le Gros

Feed Factory Clerk

Jami Gertz

Frances

Jason Patric

Lt. Charles Gatewood

Richard Jordan

Dave Foley

Adrian Pasdar

Caleb Colton