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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.
- Debra Hill, Kurt Russell
- John Carpenter, Shirley Walker
- August 9, 1996
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.
- John Carpenter
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- 1 min
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Aug 9, 1996 · 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 ...
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Like New York, Los Angeles is now in ruins, and a hot-bed of crime. Snake sneaks into the city with a nuclear-powered mini submarine which he soon loses when the unsturdy platform it landed on crumbles, causing the sub to sink into the ocean. Making his way across the island, Snake meets an array of characters.