Mad Max beyond Thunderdome / Warner Bros. Pictures ; Kennedy Miller presents ; written by Terry Hayes & George Miller ; producer, George Miller ; directors, George Miller & George Ogilvie.
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FilmPublisher number: 1000100265A | Warner Home Video1000100265B | Warner Home Video3000022812 | Warner Home Video11519.1.A | Warner Home Video (disc surface)Language: English, French Original language: English Distributor: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009]Edition: Standard version ; Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (107 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1419883259
- 9781419883255
- Mad Max beyond Thunderdome (Motion picture)
- Production designer, Graham 'Grace' Walker ; costume designer, Norma Moriceau ; director of photography, Dean Semler ; editor, Richard Francis-Bruce ; original music score composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
About 15 years after the events of Mad Max 2, nuclear war has finally destroyed what little was left of civilization. Grizzled and older, former cop Max (Mel Gibson) roams the Australian desert in a camel-drawn vehicle -- until father-and-son thieves Jebediah Sr. (Bruce Spence) and Jr. (Adam Cockburn) use their jury-rigged airplane to steal his possessions and means of transportation. Max soon winds up in Bartertown, a cesspool of post-apocalyptic capitalism powered by methane-rich pig manure and overseen by two competing overlords, Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) and Master (Angelo Rossitto), a crafty midget who rides around on the back of his hulking underling, Blaster (Paul Larsson). Seeking to re-equip himself, Max strikes a deal with the haughty Aunty to kill Blaster in ritualized combat inside Thunderdome, a giant jungle gym where Bartertown's conflicts are played out in a postmodern update of blood and circuses. Although Max manages to fell the mighty Blaster, he refuses to kill him after realizing the brute is actually a retarded boy. Aunty's henchmen murder Blaster nonetheless, then punish Max for violating the law that "Two men enter, one man leaves." Lashed to the back of a hapless pack animal and sent out into a sandstorm, a near-death Max is rescued by a band of tribal children and teens. The descendants of the victims of an airplane crash, the kids inhabit a lush valley and wait for the day when Captain Walker, the plane's pilot, will return to lead them back to civilization. Some of the children, refusing to believe that Max isn't Walker and that the glorious cities of their mythology no longer exist, set off in search of civilization on their own. Max and three tribe members must then rescue their friends from Bordertown and the clutches of Aunty Entity -- a quest that ends in a lengthy desert chase sequence that echoes the first two Mad Max films. Spence also appeared in Mad Max 2 in a different role, that of the Gyro Captain. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
Disc is double-sided: widescreen format on one side, standard on the other.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Special features: Cast & crew; Collector & master; Evolution of a trilogy; Creating the future; On location; Theatrical trailer.
Production designer, Graham 'Grace' Walker ; costume designer, Norma Moriceau ; director of photography, Dean Semler ; editor, Richard Francis-Bruce ; original music score composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre.
Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Helen Buday, Frank Thring, Bruce Spence, Robert Grubb, Angelo Rossitto, Angry Anderson, George Spartels, Edwin Hodgeman, Mark Spain, Mark Kounnas, Rod Zuanic, Justine Clarke, Shane Tucker, Tom Jennings.
Once again, Mad Max stands alone against the barbarians of a post-nuclear age. This time, Max enters the gladiatorial maces-and-chainsaws combat inside Thunderdome arena and then defends the future for a group of abandoned children.
MPAA rating: PG-13.
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 (English); Dolby digital surround stereo. (French); NTSC, region 1.
In English or French; optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; Closed-captioned.