Escape From L.A.
by John Carpenter
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Actor: A.J. Langer, Georges Corraface, Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve BuscemiDirector: John Carpenter
Brand: RUSSELL/KEACH/BUSCEMI
Producer: Kurt Russell
Writer: Kurt Russell
Cinematographer: Gary B. Kibbe
Writer: John Carpenter
Producer: Debra Hill
Writer: Debra Hill
Writer: Nick Castle
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-12-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Escape From L.A.
Movie Review: ESCAPE FROM L.A.
Summary: 3 Stars
GOOD ACTION FUN !
Remake/Sequel of the 1981 super hit ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK...Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is back in this futuristic movie where Los Angeles is the home for the criminals (separared from the U.S. where the "good guys" live) and the President's Daughter is missing there with a "Black Box" that Snake is forced to recover.
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Summary of Escape From L.A.
Snake Plissken is sent to post-earthquake-devastated Los Angeles to retrieve a doomsday device in the hear 2013.No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: RUSSELL/KEACH/BUSCEMI
Title: ESCAPE FROM L.A.
Street Release Date: 12/15/1998
Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Kurt Russell reprises his role as Snake Plissken, of the near-future thriller Escape from New York, in this reworking of that film's basic premise. Instead of New York being a maximum-security prison, this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. This penal colony is where the film's future rulers, something very like the Moral Majority, send those deemed guilty of "moral crimes." But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the President's daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. The film's dark dystopia, with its satrical elements taking aim at our dwindling freedoms, and the eclipsing of democracy by narrow interests, are more the subject this time. As a result the action suffers, and the plot devices are sometimes weak and predictable. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike. Steve Buscemi's performance as a weasely hawker of L.A. tour maps is a standout, and the presence of Peter Fonda and Pam Grier adds to the fun. In fact, just the sight of Fonda surfing down the flooded corridor of Sunset Boulevard is reason enough to check this movie out. --Jim Gay
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