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Writer (WGA):
David Webb Peoples (written by)
Release Date:
23 February 1990 (USA) more
Tagline:
When juggers play there is only one way to live - THE HARD WAY! - [Australia Theatrical] [Title as Salute of the Jugger] more
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A Mad Max-esque post apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a brutal, futuristic game resembling football... more | add synopsis
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Five: Rutger Hauer Films Where He Is Not An Android
(From LateFilmFull. 12 April 2009, 5:36 PM, PDT)
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The best sport movie ever made more (37 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rutger Hauer | ... | Sallow | |
| Delroy Lindo | ... | Mbulu | |
| Anna Katarina | ... | Big Cimber (as Anna Katerina) | |
| Vincent D'Onofrio | ... | Young Gar (as Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio) | |
| Gandhi MacIntyre | ... | Gandhi | |
| Justin Monjo | ... | Dog Boy | |
| Aaron Martin | ... | Samchin Boy | |
| Joan Chen | ... | Kidda | |
| Casey Huang | ... | Kidda's Father | |
| Quang Dinh | ... | Samchin Head Elder | |
| John Doumtsis | ... | Samchin Timekeeper | |
| John Biro | ... | Samchin Peasant #1 | |
| Brian Cawley | ... | Samchin Peasant #2 | |
| Gino Terranova | ... | Samchin Peasant #3 | |
| Cecilia Wong | ... | Kidda's Mother |
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Salute of the Jugger (UK) (video title) (UK) (DVD title) (USA) (working title)
The Salute of the Jugger (Australia) (UK)
The Blood of Heroes (USA)
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90 min | Japan:104 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Singapore:M18 | Iceland:16 | Norway:18 | Australia:M | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 (nf)
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[Kidda gets tripped by Ghandi when practicing her running skills]
Sallow:
Can't pass an old man?
Kidda:
I didn't see him.
Sallow:
You gotta know where everybody is, all of us!
Kidda:
What if I can't?
Sallow:
They'll crush your skull!
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I am surprised and delighted by the sheer depth of this movie every time I re-watch it. Not only is the jugger sport convincing, well-designed and very enthusiastically played by the excellent cast of actors, but the post-civilised (as opposed to post-apocalyptic) world it takes place in is both subtly drawn and entirely believable. Nowhere in the pithy script is there the usual heavy-handed sci-fi references to the nuclear war (or whatever) that reduced human-kind back to feudal barbarism. We are presented with the world of the juggers as-is, without a single "as you know, our society collapsed after the great firestorm in the sky" speech or a hint that the heroes of the title can improve mankind's sad situation as anything other than gladiatorial entertainers. A masterpiece that should be on DVD, converted into a computer game and, if they can get the original cast and production team together, sequelled.