 | Escape from L.A. (1996) Run time: 101 min Rating: 5.5 Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi Director: John Carpenter Writers: John Carpenter, Nick Castle Stars: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda Trivia: 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. |
| Storyline The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. 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. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com} | |
| Plot Keywords: island, escape, earthquake, terrorist, virus | |
| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 9 August 1996 (USA) | |
| Box Office Budget: $50,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: JPY 9,040,640 (Japan) (29 November 1996) Gross: JPY 131,401,000 (Japan) (6 December 1996) | |
