Escape from L.A.

(Escape from L.A.)

Synopsis

2013 : Utopia, the President's daughter has stolen a top secret prototype unit in a Bedford space defense laboratory then has perplexed Air Forces3, the presidential plane for the island of Los Angeles, place of deportation of the uninvited. Someone learns that she has contact with Cuervo Jones, Peruvian terrorist, member of the luminous path now owner of the "black box" of a national interest.

Snake Plissken, still captive, is asked to find and to bring back the case. To oblige the renegade to archive the mission, he has been injected without knowing a mortal virus, the "plutoxin 7", that leaves him only 10 hours to live. United States are on the point to be invaded the luminous path, the pre-industrial country revenge composed of countries such as Cuba or Brazil. Snake has to recuperate the black box and to kill Utopia within 10 hours if not...

A movie directed by John Carpenter

1996 - 101 minutes - Color - Dolby Digital - 2.35

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Main Cast

  • Snake Plissken
  • Map to the Stars Eddie
  • Pipeline
  • President
  • Taslima
  • Cmdr. Malloy
  • Hershe Las Palmas
  • Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
  • Cuervo Jones
  • Brazen
  • Utopia
  • Hooker
  • Duty Sergeant
  • Police Anchor
  • Woman on Freeway

Production

Distributors

Box-office

Budget
$50 000 000

Also Known As

  • John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (us)

Release dates

  • September 20, 1996
  • August 09, 1996
  • October 10, 1996
  • September 20, 1996
  • August 09, 1996
  • June 24, 2007 (Los Angeles Film Festival)