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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: RUSSELL/KEACH/BUSCEMI
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780792153146
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305222886
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: 097363324973
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 09, 1996
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Editorial Review:
Snake Plissken is sent to post-earthquake-devastated Los Angeles to retrieve a doomsday device in the hear 2013.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: RUSSELL/KEACH/BUSCEMI
Title: ESCAPE FROM L.A.
Street Release Date: 12/15/1998
Domestic
Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Kurt Russell reprises his role as Snake Plissken, of the near-future thriller Escape from New York, in this reworking of that film's basic premise. Instead of New York being a maximum-security prison, this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. This penal colony is where the film's future rulers, something very like the Moral Majority, send those deemed guilty of "moral crimes." 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. The film's dark dystopia, with its satrical elements taking aim at our dwindling freedoms, and the eclipsing of democracy by narrow interests, are more the subject this time. As a result the action suffers, and the plot devices are sometimes weak and predictable. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike. Steve Buscemi's performance as a weasely hawker of L.A. tour maps is a standout, and the presence of Peter Fonda and Pam Grier adds to the fun. In fact, just the sight of Fonda surfing down the flooded corridor of Sunset Boulevard is reason enough to check this movie out. --Jim Gay
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A GREAT CULT CLASSIC MOVIE!
This movie follows Escape from New York, and it's just great. It's not meant to be taken too seriously. There are subtle jokes throughout the movie. A lot of it is tongue in cheek. So enjoy it for what it is. My favorite line is "This is LA, and this ****ing city can kill anyone!" There will be no Oscars, no awards given out for this movie... it's just mindless entertainment. You can tell Kurt Russell is having fun with the character. The whole movie is "over the top" and that's the point. Loads ... Read More
Rating: - You cannot review this...
OK, this isn't Citizen Kane, you put this in and turn your brain off and giggle... I would be shocked if John Carpenter took this movie seriously... it's just not something I can wrap my brain around.
Anyway, it's a really fun movie, so bad its great.
Rating: - Escape From L.A.
still enjoy this movie. it's one of those that need's to be in your collection if you like kurk russell
Rating:  - Land Of The Free
Snake: Got a smoke? Malloy: America is a no smoking nation, no smoking, no drinking, no foul language, no sex unless your married, no red meat. Snake: Land of the free.
There's not much new about Escape From LA, compared to its predecessor. It's pretty much the same story, set in a different place, and Kurt Russell once more in a race against the clock, in order to rescue a black box from the president's daughter.
This time, 2013, the prison is LA, after being separated ... Read More
Rating: - Been there, done that.
What can I say? Did you see Escape from New York? Well then you have practically already seen Escape from L.A. There's no going around it. It's the EXACT same movie. Same urban renewal backdrop, the same plot twists, same jokes even. You can put the two movies next to each other and follow them scene-by-scene. Oh sure a few details are different, but you're getting the exact same movie.
I'm not kidding here. Snake is forced to help the government just like the first movie. Snake has ... Read More
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