Barb Wire (film)
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| Directed by | David Hogan |
| Produced by | Todd Moyer Mike Richardson Brad Wyman |
| Written by | Chris Warner (comics) |
| Screenplay by |
Chuck Pfarrer Ilene Chaiken |
| Story by | Ilene Chaiken |
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Barb Wire by Dark Horse Comics |
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| Music by | Michel Colombier |
| Cinematography | Rick Bota |
| Edited by | Peter Schink |
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| Distributed by | Gramercy Pictures |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English French German |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $3.8 million |
Barb Wire is a 1996 American action-science fiction film based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name. Brad Wyman produced, and David Hogan directed. Barb Wire stars Pamela Anderson in the title role.
The plot of the film is loosely based on the plot of Casablanca. Barb Wire is set in 2017 during the "Second American Civil War," rather than World War II. Many of the roles had their gender switched.
Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor — "the last free city" in a United States ravaged by the civil war — and she brings in extra cash working as a mercenary and bounty hunter. Chief of Police Willis (Xander Berkeley) raids her club. Willis's target is fugitive Dr. Corrina "Cora D" Devonshire (Victoria Rowell), a former government scientist with information about a bioweapon being developed by her former superior, Colonel Pryzer (Steve Railsback) of the Congressional Directorate. Dr. Devonshire hopes to escape to Canada in order to make this information public.
Devonshire later turns up at the Hammerhead. She is accompanied by Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison), a "freedom fighter" whom Barb had known and loved at the outbreak of the war, but the two were separated during the conflict. Axel is trying to help Cora get to Canada. They are trying to find a contraband pair of contact lenses that will allow Cora to evade the retinal scan at the Steel Harbor airport. The lenses pass through the hands of several lowlifes before also ending up at Barb's nightclub.
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