Tank Girl is a 1995 film based somewhat loosely on the Tank Girl comic book, created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. It was directed by Rachel Talalay and stars Lori Petty as Rebecca Buck, aka the eponymous Tank Girl, who had originally appeared in the UK comic book, Deadline.
The movie takes place in a dystopian 2033 A.D., after a comet hit Earth, turning it into a wasteland and altering the atmosphere, making it so that there has been no rain...
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Tank Girl is a 1995 film based somewhat loosely on the Tank Girl comic book, created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. It was directed by Rachel Talalay and stars Lori Petty as Rebecca Buck, aka the eponymous Tank Girl, who had originally appeared in the UK comic book, Deadline.
The movie takes place in a dystopian 2033 A.D., after a comet hit Earth, turning it into a wasteland and altering the atmosphere, making it so that there has been no rain for the last 11 years. Water is extremely scarce, and what little is available is controlled by the monopolistic Water & Power (W&P;), led by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell). Water & Power are opposed by the almost mythical "Rippers," whose precise nature is unknown as the film opens.
Tank Girl, a.k.a. Rebecca (Lori Petty), is a member of a small outlaw group that has set up their own water well in the basement of a house. Learning of the well, W&P; attacks, killing most of the people in the house and taking Rebecca and a young girl named Sam ...
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