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.

Richard Jordan
as Grock

Jami Gertz
as Terra

Jason Patric
as Jason

Lukas Haas
as Daniel

James LeGros
as Metron

Claude Brooks
as Rabbit

Peter DeLuise
as Tug

Peter Kowanko
as Gavial

Adrian Pasdar
as Darstar

Sarah Douglas
as Shandray
GenerationofSwine
Well, I don't know what to say...honestly. I guess I can say that I loved it as a child, and it's getting the 10 of 10 based on remembering when I watched it through a child's eyes. But there are certain tropes with this genre, and it hits the shortage of water trope, and the roller skate trope, ...