Barb Wire (film)
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Cast

  • Pamela Anderson Lee
    Pamela Anderson
    Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990...

     as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski
  • Temuera Morrison
    Temuera Morrison
    Temuera Derek Morrison is a New Zealand-born actor. He has become one of the country's most famous stars for his roles as the abusive Jake "the Muss" Heke in 1994's Once Were Warriors and as bounty hunter Jango Fett and the Clone Troopers in the Star Wars series...

     as Axel Hood
  • Victoria Rowell
    Victoria Rowell
    Victoria "Vicki" Lynn Rowell is an American actress and dancer. She is best known for her portrayal of ballerina-turned-model Drucilla Winters on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, and medical examiner/pathologist Dr. Amanda Bentley on the CBS drama Diagnosis: Murder...

     as Dr. Corrina "Cora D" Devonshire
  • Jack Noseworthy as Charlie Kopetski
  • Xander Berkeley
    Xander Berkeley
    Alexander Harper "Xander" Berkeley is an American actor. His roles include George Mason on the television series 24.-Early life:Berkeley was born in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey...

     as Alexander Willis
  • Udo Kier
    Udo Kier
    Udo Kier is a German actor, known primarily for his work in horror and exploitation movies.-Early life:...

     as Curly
  • Andre Rosey Brown as Big Fatso
  • Nicholas Worth
    Nicholas Worth
    Nicholas Worth was an American character actor who portrayed General Marzaq and Premier Romanov in Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer series of games, Emperor: Battle for Dune, and also voice-acted as Colonel Bulba/Mr. Jones in Freedom Fighters...

     as Ruben Tentenbaum
  • Clint Howard
    Clint Howard
    Clinton "Clint" Howard is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor with numerous brief appearances on television and films. He has played many bit parts in movies directed by his brother, actor-turned-director Ron Howard. He is also the uncle of actress Bryce Dallas Howard...

     as Schmitz
  • Jennifer Banko as Spike
  • Steve Railsback
    Steve Railsback
    Steve Railsback is an American theatre, film and television actor, born in Dallas, Texas.-Personal life:Railsback was born Stephen Hall Railsback, in Dallas, Texas, the son of Emerett Spencer and Clyde Webb Railsback.-Career:Railsback was a student of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and in...

     as Colonel Pryzer
  • Michael Russo as Santos
  • Loren Ruben as Krebs
  • Tiny 'Zeus' Lister as the Bouncer
  • Mary Anna Reyes as the Woman in Torture Room


In the film, Anderson's waist was laced down to 17 inches (43.2 cm). She did some of her own stunts, although the corset
Corset
A corset is a garment worn to hold and shape the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes...

 and the heels she wore made fight scenes very challenging. Anderson suffered a miscarriage
Miscarriage
Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving independently, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation...

 during filming.

Reception

Barb Wire was poorly received by critics and was considered a box office disappointment. It holds a 30% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...

 based on 33 reviews (10 positive, 23 negative), with the consensus stating that "Barb Wire could've been fun camp, but Pamela Anderson can't deliver her lines with any dramatic or comedic impact". Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 pointed out that the film's plot was identical to that of Casablanca
Casablanca (film)
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in...

.

It is perhaps notable for its opening, in which Anderson dances topless as water is sprayed on her. Some of this sequence was cut on the film's initial release, but restored for later home video and DVD releases.

Awards and nominations

Year Group Award Result
1996 Golden Raspberry Awards
Golden Raspberry Awards
A Golden Raspberry Award, or Razzie for short, is an award presented in recognition of the worst in movies. Founded by American copywriter and publicist John J.B. Wilson in 1981, the annual Razzie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles precedes the corresponding Academy Awards ceremony by one day...

Worst Picture
Worst Actress (Pamela Anderson)
Worst Screen Couple (Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements")
Worst Screenplay (Chuck Pfarrer
Chuck Pfarrer
Charles Patrick "Chuck" Pfarrer, III is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former U.S. Navy SEAL from Biloxi, Mississippi.-Biography:...

 and Ilene Chaiken
Ilene Chaiken
Ilene Chaiken is an American television producer, director and writer. Chaiken is best known as being the co-creator, writer and executive producer of the television series The L Word...

)
Worst New Star (Pamela Anderson)
Worst "Original" Song ("Welcome to Planet Boom!", by Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee
Thomas Lee Bass , best known as Tommy Lee, is an American musician and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects...

)
1997 MTV Movie Awards
MTV Movie Awards 1997
The 1997 MTV Movie Awards were held on June 10, 1997 and hosted by Mike Myers. Performers included Jewel, Bush, and En Vogue. This year also eliminated the categories of "Most Desirable Female" and "Most Desirable Male."-Performers:*Bush — "Cold Contagious"...

Best Fight (Pamela Anderson Lee/Steve Railsback)

Soundtrack

An official soundtrack
Barb Wire (soundtrack)
Barb Wire was a soundtrack for the movie of the same name, released in 1996. It contains 11 tracks of rock music including covers of songs by Patti Smith and Cameo.- Track listing :# Tommy Lee - "Planet Boom" - 3:58...

was released in 1996.

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