Solarbabies
Seen it?1986 | 94 min | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Romance
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With just 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, a weak 5.4 out of 10 from audiences and a box office loss, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for romantics, sci-fi fans and action fans. If you loved Alita: Battle Angel or The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, start here.
- The mood
- Warm and romantic, mind-bending.
- The pace
- Fast-moving, at 1 hr 34 min.
- What might put you off
- Rated PG-13. Probably too much for younger kids.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsWeak
0% on Rotten Tomatoes, 24 on Metacritic
- AudiencesWeak
5.4 out of 10 from opening-week audiences
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Box office & staying powerBelow par
$20 million worldwide on a $25 million budget; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 40K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Alan Johnson
- Richard JordanGrock
- Jami GertzTerra
- Jason PatricJason
- Lukas HaasDaniel
- James Le GrosMetron
- Claude BrooksRabbit
- Peter DeLuiseTug
- Peter KowankoGavial
- Adrian PasdarDarstar
- Sarah DouglasShandray