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Barb Wire
MEANRANK
37/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 15, highest is Kinopoisk on 48.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.
Details
- Director
- David Hogan
- Writers
- Chuck Pfarrer, Ilene Chaiken
- Based on
- Barb Wire
- Released
- 2 May 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $3.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 7 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →1 win from 8 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Best Fight 1997 | — | Pamela Anderson and Steve Railsback | Nominee |
| Worst "Original" Song 1996 | — | "Welcome to Planet Boom!", by Tommy Lee | Nominee |
| Worst Actress 1996 | — | Pamela Lee [Anderson] | Nominee |
| Worst Actress 1996 | — | Pamela Anderson | Nominee |
| Worst New Star 1996 | — | Pamela Anderson | Winner |
| Worst Picture 1996 | — | Todd Moyer, Mike Richardson and Brad Wyman | Nominee |
| Worst Screen Couple 1996 | — | Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements" | Nominee |
| Worst Screenplay 1996 | — | Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken | Nominee |
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8 awards — Barb Wire
×| — | Pamela Anderson | Winner |
| — | Pamela Lee [Anderson] | Nominee |
| — | Pamela Anderson | Nominee |
| — | Pamela Anderson and Steve Railsback | Nominee |
| — | "Welcome to Planet Boom!", by Tommy Lee | Nominee |
| — | Todd Moyer, Mike Richardson and Brad Wyman | Nominee |
| — | Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements" | Nominee |
| — | Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken | Nominee |