After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
- Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations total
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTina Turner had to shave her head for her wig to fit properly. She reportedly had no problem with that.
- GoofsIronbar fires an arrow through the train/truck's door and through Pig Killer's leg. The arrow has a huge four-bladed broadhead on it, yet the hole in the door and the hole in Pig Killer's leg are only the size of the arrow's shaft.
- Quotes
Aunty Entity: Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody.
- Crazy creditsMel Gibson, who plays Mad Max, is listed again among the Stunt Crew in the End Credits.
- Alternate versionsScenes filmed but cut from the final film: Max comforting the dying Ghekko while facing Bartertown from the desert dunes and telling him it's Tomorrowmorrow land (this scene can be glimpsed in the Tina Turner video for We Don't Need Another Hero.) Max waking in Crack in Earth in the middle of the night and remembering his wife Jessie and crying, realising he is no better than the people he has hunted for so long.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Special Show: The Jack of All Films (1985)
- SoundtracksWe Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
Written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle
Performed by Tina Turner
Produced by Terry Britten
Copyright © 1985 Good Single Music Ltd. & My Axe Music Ltd.
Featured review
Who could not love this movie? It's got more imagination than five average postbomb flicks, incredible visual design, enough alternate societies with enough backstory apiece for three more movies (including an aboriginal clan who look like Peter Pan's Lost Boys and speak a dialect you'll be copying for days after you see it), car chases, amazing costumes, one of the most original death-duel sequences ever, Tina Turner, *and* Mel Gibson! I mean, goddamn, what more do you want? I personally want another movie just set in Bartertown AND a movie that follows what happens to Anna Goanna and her clan, and they don't even have to have Mel Gibson in them - that's how rich I think the imaginative depth of this movie is. I like it more every time I see it. Genuinely something special.
- angelynx-2
- May 19, 2000
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Mad Max: Más allá de la cúpula del trueno
- Filming locations
- Mermaid's Cave, Blackheath, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia(Tribal Childrens' Home - crack in the earth)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,230,219
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,283,714
- Jul 14, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $36,231,434
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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