Slipstream
- IMDb link: 0098350
- IMDb rating: 4.7 (3,470 votes) Search
- Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Director: Steven Lisberger, Bill Paxton
- Cast: Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge and others
- Release date: 2 Jun 1989
- Release year: 1989
- Runtime: 102 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom
- Keywords: pilot, dystopia, future, future shock, one word title, cult film, orchestral music score, scene during end credits, no opening credits, voice over narration
Plot
Storyline
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
In the future, natural disasters (earthquakes, floods) have ravaged Earth, leaving a world where pockets of communities live within canyons while a violent wind known as the "slipsteam" is the only means of transport, via airplanes. Matt Owens is a nomadic adventurer who kidnaps a prisoner ("Byron") of two violent law officers so he can claim the bounty for himself. Traveling across the wind swept landscape, Matt and Byron are relentlessly pursued by the officers, and Matt finds Byron isn't what he appears to be, as they travel from community to community and encounter pockets of strange societies that live beyond the slipstream.
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