MOVIE · 1996
Escape from L.A.
ActionAdventureSci-FiThriller101 min
After a 9.6 earthquake cuts Los Angeles off from the mainland, the city becomes an autonomous island prison, and the government sends Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken into the ruins to recover a stolen doomsday device. John Carpenter drops his eyepatched antihero into a future L.A. of collapsed landmarks, militarized borders, and exile politics, where every route is controlled by somebody. Steve Buscemi threads through the chaos as a fast-talking local contact, while the mission pushes Snake deeper into a city rebuilt from punishment, spectacle, and scavenged power.
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