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Escape from L.A. (1996) 5.5
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. Director:John Carpenter |
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Cast
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| Kurt Russell | ... | ||
| Steve Buscemi | ... | ||
| Peter Fonda | ... | ||
| Cliff Robertson | ... | ||
| Valeria Golino | ... | ||
| Stacy Keach | ... | ||
| Pam Grier | ... | ||
| Bruce Campbell | ... | ||
| Georges Corraface | ... |
Cuervo Jones
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| Michelle Forbes | ... | ||
| A.J. Langer | ... | ||
| Ina Romeo | ... | ||
| Peter Jason | ... | ||
| Jordan Baker | ... | ||
| Caroleen Feeney | ... |
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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}
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The man with the patch has escaped N.Y., try L.A. in the apocalypse See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
9 August 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. See more »Filming Locations:
Courthouse Square, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA See more »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)Company Credits
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Cuervo Jones: Two hoops, full court. Ten-second shot clock. Miss a shot, you get shot. Shot clock buzzer goes off before you shoot, you get shot. Two points for a basket, no three-point bullshit. All you gotta do is get ten points. That's it.
[pause]
Cuervo Jones: By the way, nobody's ever walked off that court alive. Nobody.
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At the beginning of the film, Kurt Russell wears his costume from the original film, which still fits after 15 years. See more »Goofs
During the fight after the basketball game, Cuervo drops the black box twice. See more »Quotes
[explaining the basketball rules to Snake]Cuervo Jones: Two hoops, full court. Ten-second shot clock. Miss a shot, you get shot. Shot clock buzzer goes off before you shoot, you get shot. Two points for a basket, no three-point bullshit. All you gotta do is get ten points. That's it.
[pause]
Cuervo Jones: By the way, nobody's ever walked off that court alive. Nobody.
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I don't think there's a better movie describing today's atmosphere in America and you can easily forget Escape From New York cause its political themes are pretty much restrained. Also Escape From L.A. is kind of timeless in a way that it satirizes all what America is known for, from motorcycle gangs, hookers, Hollywood agents, face-lifts, politics, freedom, violence TO implied peculiar American (created) all movie genres (sci-fi, action, comedy, western) to movie characters (typical US movies bad guys/good guys), music (typical western score, typical US orchestrated score), dialogues, typical US action movie scenes and especially parodying Hollywood stupid copycat sequels. You can find so much about America through this film, you just have to know how to watch it.
Also i think the fact that the story of this film is only borrowed from EFNY is done partially on purpose because Russell & Carpenter wanted to do it with familiar story and highlight especially those aspects only characteristic to contemporary America and make fun of them. Carpenter did surely one of his best films ever that already no doubt surpassed his inferior classic Escape From New York. Gee what amazing piece of work Carpenter created do you even realize that? And personally i think Escape From L.A. over time will definitely gain well-deserved status as one of the greatest master-pieces in American movie history!