Escape from L.A.

Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Genre : ActionAdventureScience FictionThriller

Runtime : 101 mins

Release Date : 1996-08-09

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90s cheese not quite as good as 80s cheese, but still an entertaining enough action-thriller, though some moments were laughable and not in a good way (Snake riding surfing a wave isn't all that bad ass), plus the effects work was rather poor. I don't have a great fondness for Escape from New York...

So Los Angeles has become a glorified open-air prison (who'd have thought?) and "Snake" (Kurt Russell) is invited to do his "Mad Max" thing and go in, at considerable peril to himself, and fetch a gadget that could enable the US President (Cliff Robertson) - or anyone else with the codes, for that ...

Cast

Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell

(Snake Plissken)

Stacy Keach

Stacy Keach

(Malloy)

Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi

(Eddie)

A. J. Langer

A. J. Langer

(Utopia)

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

(Surgeon General of Beverly Hills)

Pam Grier

Pam Grier

(Hershe Las Palamas)

Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda

(Pipeline)

Georges Corraface

Georges Corraface

(Cuervo Jones)

Robert Carradine

Robert Carradine

(Skinhead)

Michelle Forbes

Michelle Forbes

(Brazen)

Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino

(Taslima)

Leland Orser

Leland Orser

(Test Tube)

Jeff Imada

Jeff Imada

(Saigon Shadow)

Al Leong

Al Leong

(Hershe Gang Member)

James Lew

James Lew

(Hershe Gang Member)

Breckin Meyer

Breckin Meyer

(Surfer)

Ina Romeo

Ina Romeo

(Hooker)

Peter Jason

Peter Jason

(Duty Sergeant)

Jordan Baker

Jordan Baker

(Police Anchor)

Caroleen Feeney

Caroleen Feeney

(Woman on Freeway)

Paul Bartel

Paul Bartel

(Congressman)

Shelly Desai

Shelly Desai

(Cloaked Figure)

Julien Cesario

(Mescalito (uncredited))

Cliff Robertson

Cliff Robertson

(President)

Thomas Rosales Jr.

Thomas Rosales Jr.

(Gang Member (uncredited))

John Koyama

John Koyama

(Hershe Gang Member (uncredited))

Leo Lee

Leo Lee

(Hershe Gang Member (uncredited))

Stuart Quan

Stuart Quan

(Hershe Gang Member (uncredited))

Wyatt Russell

Wyatt Russell

(Orphan Boy (uncredited))

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis

(Female Narrator (uncredited))

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