I believe this is a kids movie I saw on TV in the mid to late nineties. It was in color, in English, and may have been on one of the kids channels.

The main characters are a sister and her younger brother, a family friend who is like a big silent bouncer or bodyguard, and a young suave guy they meet. It’s an adventure-fantasy in some sort of future dystopia.

I remember a couple of scenes… Suave guy sees the sister fight off some military types and invites her to escape with him through a security checkpoint in the desert by racing their flying boards past the guards. They succeed in escaping, and are later joined by the brother and bodyguard dude, much to the chagrin of suave guy, who thought he was ditching the weaker elements. Sister says she would never leave them, they’re her family.

Later, the sister gets captured and taken to some sort of facility where she gets strapped to a gurney. She gets out of the straps by shimmying the gurney until the bottom release button is hit, then stretches her legs over her head to hit the top button. She wanders around the facility, running into the brother of a friend that is so doped up he doesn’t even know who he is. She is recaptured, and suave guy and co. break in to save her.

The group have almost made it to safety when their way is blocked and bodyguard dude has to sacrifice himself to ensure their escape. The final scene shows the kids running around a beach playing and enjoying their new-found freedom while suave guy does a voiceover.

It’s crazy the things we remember and the things we don’t… But if anyone can tell me what this movie is I’d be eternally grateful!!