Solarbabies

Solarbabies (1986) is an American sci-fi adventure film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alan Johnson. The setting is a future Earth with almost no water, run by an authoritarian government that warehouses orphaned teenagers and keeps them in line through bureaucratic routine.

The group — Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lucas Haas and Adrian Pasdar among them — bonds through a rough roller-hockey game played inside the compound. When a glowing orb of unknown origin falls into their hands, each of them feels it differently. They break out on wheels and cross the wasteland with stormtroopers behind them. Straightforward '80s genre filmmaking: big synth score, earnest young cast, no cynicism. Stream Solarbabies online on iFILM.