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Turbo Kid (2014)

Turbo Kid poster
Directed by
Yoann-Karl Whissell, Anouk Whissell, François Simard
Genre
post-apocalyptic film
Country
New Zealand, United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 778 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage comic book fan becomes a superhero in a dusty future where water is hard to find. He joins a girl and a cowboy to fight a warlord.

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What happens

Turbo Kid is a 2015 post-apocalyptic superhero film written and directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell. The film stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Edwin Wright, Aaron Jeffery, and Romano Orzari. The film follows the adventures of a teenage comic book fan turned superhero in an alternate 1997 post-apocalyptic Earth where water is scarce. He teams up with a mysterious girl and an arm-wrestling cowboy to stop a tyrannical warlord. Epic Pictures Group released the film in the United States on August 28. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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