Tank Girl (film)

Tank Girl is a 1995 American sciencefiction actioncomedy film directed by Rachel Talalay. Based on the British postapocalyptic comic series of the same name by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett that was originally published in Deadline magazine, the film stars Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, IceT and Malcolm McDowell. Tank Girl is set in a droughtravaged Australia, years after a catastrophic impact event. It follows the antihero Tank Girl Petty as she, Jet Girl Watts, and genetically modified supersoldiers called the Rippers fight Water amp Power, an oppressive corporation led by Kesslee McDowell.

In 2022, a comet strikes Earth causing an 11year drought. By 2033, most of the little remaining water is held in reserve by Kesslee Malcolm McDowell and his Water amp Power WampP corporation, which uses the water to control the population. Rebecca Buck Tank Girl Lori Petty is a member of a commune in the Australian outback that operates the last water well not controlled by the corporation. In an attack on the commune, WampP troops kill Tank Girls boyfriend, Richard Brian Wimmer, and capture Tank Girl and her young friend Sam Stacy Linn Ramsower. Rather than killing her, Kesslee tortures and enslaves the defiant Tank Girl. Jet Girl Naomi Watts, a talented but introverted jet mechanic who has given up trying to escape WampP, urges Tank Girl to make less trouble for their captors, though Tank Girl refuses. Among other forms of torture, WampP personnel push her down into a long pipe and fill it with water.The mysterious Rippers slaughter guards at the WampP compound, then escape undetected. Kesslee uses Tank Girl to lure the Rippers into the open, but they gravely wound Kesslee and let Tank Girl and Jet Girl escape. Jet Girl steals a fighter jet from WampP and Tank Girl steals a tank, which she modifies heavily. The girls learn from the eccentric Sub Girl Ann Cusack that Sam is working at a sex club called Liquid Silver. They infiltrate the club, rescue Sam from a pedophile, Rat Face Iggy Pop, and then humiliate the clubs owner, The Madame Ann Magnuson, by making her sing Cole Porters Lets Do It at gunpoint. WampP troops break up the performance and recapture Sam. Tank Girl and Jet Girl wander the desert and find the Rippers hideout. They learn that the Rippers are supersoldiers created from human and kangaroo DNA by a man called Johnny Prophet. Tank Girl befriends a Ripper named Booga Jeff Kober, while a Ripper named Donner Scott Coffey shows romantic interest in Jet Girl. Despite the objections of the Ripper TSaint IceT, who is suspicious of the girls, the Rippers

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