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Budget. $50 million [3] Box office. $42.3 million [4] Escape from L.A. (stylized on-screen as John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.) is a 1996 American post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, co-written and produced by Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, with Russell also starring as Snake Plissken.
Aug 9, 1996 · Escape from L.A.: Directed by John Carpenter. With Kurt Russell, A.J. Langer, Steve Buscemi, Georges Corraface. Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- John Carpenter
- 1996-08-09
But, when the president's daughter nabs the detonator to her dad's apocalyptic weapon and sneaks into L.A. to be with the rebel leader she loves, the government taps commando-turned-crook Snake ...
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- John Carpenter
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- Kurt Russell
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Roger Ebert August 09, 1996. Tweet. John Carpenter 's “Escape From L.A.” is a go-for-broke action extravaganza that satirizes the genre at the same time it's exploiting it. It's a dark vision of a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles--leveled by a massive earthquake, cut off from the mainland by a flooded San Fernando Valley, and converted into a ...
Feb 24, 2022 · Escape From L.A. also marks the first time Carpenter collaborated on a score with Shirley Walker, a fellow giant in genre film and television responsible for the music in Batman: The Animated ...
Aug 9, 1996 · Escape from L.A. finds Kurt Russell once again in the role of Snake, which he played in the 1981 film, Escape from New York. Los Angeles has finally had the really big earthquake everyone was afraid of, and what remains is now an island.
Aug 9, 1996 · Snake Plissken returns to action in John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A. It’s sixteen years after Snake’s (Kurt Russell) rescue of the President in New York. Now a different President is in power, and declares the United States to be a land of moral superiority: no smoking, no red meat, no freedom of religion and no unapproved marriages.
