Overview:
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.| Status: | Released (1996-08-09) |
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| Awards: | 3 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $25,477,365 |
| Screen: | John Carpenter, Nick Castle, Debra Hill |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 6856: Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken
- 825: Stacy Keach - Malloy
- 884: Steve Buscemi - Eddie
- 157904: A. J. Langer - Utopia
- 19153: Cliff Robertson - President
- 11357: Bruce Campbell - Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
- 2230: Pam Grier - Hershe Las Palamas
Crews
- 11770: John Carpenter - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 24956: Gary B. Kibbe - Director of Photography - Camera
- 11770: John Carpenter - Characters - Writing
- 6119: Carrie Frazier - Casting - Production
- 2161: Debra Hill - Producer - Production
- 11770: John Carpenter - Director - Directing
- 11770: John Carpenter - Screenplay - Writing
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Reviews
JPV852
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90s cheese not quite as good as 80s cheese, but still an entertaining enough action-thriller, though some moments were laughable and not in a good way (Snake riding surfing a wave isn't all that bad ass), plus the effects work was rather poor. I don't have a great fondness for Escap ....
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So Los Angeles has become a glorified open-air prison (who'd have thought?) and "Snake" (Kurt Russell) is invited to do his "Mad Max" thing and go in, at considerable peril to himself, and fetch a gadget that could enable the US President (Cliff Robertson) - or anyone else with the c ....
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John Carpenter’s anarchic sequel Escape from LA to conservative Escape from NY swaps grim dystopia for gleeful, sleazy chaos, and it’s all the better for it. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell, still the ultimate anti-hero) is back, this time sent into a crumbling, post-earthquake Los Ange ....
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