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This futuristic science-fiction adventure film reunited Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz and star Mark Hamill, but still never received theatrical release in the U.S. In this British production, (Mark Hamill) plays Tasker, a law man assigned to bring in a fugitive named Byron (Bob Peck) on a murder warrant. The world has grown wild and wooly following an environmental collapse, and civilization is restricted to a few isolated areas. Tasker captures Byron, but then the pair runs into an outcast adventurer (Bill Paxton), who abducts Byron when he learns there's a price on his head. The chase for the recapture of Byron brings Tasker into contact with a wind worshiping cult. One of the members of the cult (Eleanor David falls in love with Byron, even though, as we learn, he's an android. The climactic showdown is a shoot-out in the sky involving giant kites. Academy Award winning actors Ben Kingsley and F. Murray Abraham have small roles. Kingsley, as the leader of the wind worshipers, appears to be doing a reprise of his Gandhi role.