Escape from L.A.

1996
15
1h 41m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

82K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

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Dystopian Sci-Fi Action Adventure Sci-Fi Thriller

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.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.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.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

82K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,450

286

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations

Trivia
Kurt Russell's only writing credit.

Goofs
The wristwatch counter shows 6 hours 59 minutes. Then he is told he has seven and a half hours left.

Quotes
Snake Plissken: Got a smoke?
Malloy: The United States is a no-smoking nation. No smoking, no drinking, no drugs. No women - unless of course you're married. No guns, no foul language... no red meat.
Snake Plissken: [sarcastic] Land of the free.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Jack/Aladdin and the King of Thieves/Escape from L.A./Basquiat/The Pompatus of Love (1996)

Soundtracks
Escape from New York - Main Title
Written by John Carpenter & Alan Howarth

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Featured review

a new word: SNAKE-TASTIC!!!!

this movie is fan-friggin-tastic!!! yet everyone in the world disliked it, and forced the movie industry to call it, "a bomb." do you even realize how much that sucks? this movie is so great. snake plissken is one of the COOLEST characters in film. he's one of those bad-ass guys, who can't lose. the movie is done in much more of a "comic-book" way than the first was. in fact, the first one is in more of a serious tone, whereas "L.A." is like reading a "Punisher" comic book. which this may be why a lot of people disliked this one. and now, we probably won't ever see an "Escape From Cleveland" or "Miami" or "Earth" or Escape From ANYTHING, because the industry called it a bomb, and therefore production companies wouldn't want to put money into another Snake installment. yet we are forced to see sequels to crap, like "Legally Blonde 2" or "Airbud: Golden Receiver." i mean come on, what is going on in this world o' film!!!!! (well actually, "Legally Blonde" wasn't all that bad, i just couldn't think of another bad movie that we are being forced to see a sequel to... hahaha) the point is: I WANT ANOTHER SNAKE PLISSKEN MOVIE!!!!!