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- 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 prison camp for the nation's undesirables.
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In 2000, a massive earthquake strikes the city of Los Angeles, cutting it off from the mainland as the San Fernando Valley floods. Declaring that God is punishing Los Angeles for its sins, a theocratic presidential candidate wins election to a lifetime term of office.
- Debra Hill, Kurt Russell
- John Carpenter, Shirley Walker
- August 9, 1996
Synopsis. On August 23, 2000, an earthquake reaching 9.6 magnitude hits the city of Los Angeles, causing it to be separated from the continental mainland by flooding the San Fernando Valley (now called the "San Fernando Sea") and turning it into an island from Malibu to Anaheim.
Aug 9, 1996 · Now his rebellious daughter Utopia (A.J. Langer) has hijacked Air Force Three and fled to Los Angeles with the precious black box that contains the codes controlling the globe's energy-transmission satellites. The president and his chief henchman ( Stacy Keach) need to get that black box back.
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.
- John Carpenter
- 1 min
In 2013, the United States president (Cliff Robertson) is exiling all citizens who don't conform to his hyper-conservative views to Los Angeles, which became an island...
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- John Carpenter
- R
- Kurt Russell
Feb 16, 2024 · Set in the darkest recesses of 2013, Cliff Robertson’s president decides to wield his powers to near-tyrannical levels, exiling those who dare to go against the grain of his politics to the barren wasteland of Los Angeles.
Aug 8, 2013 · Escape From L.A., Today: How a 1996 Sci-Fi Thriller Imagined the Year 2013. What John Carpenter got wrong: Los Angeles becoming a prison island. What he got right: Someone in our day and age...
