Escape from L.A. (1996)

Director:

John Carpenter

Writers (WGA):

John Carpenter (characters) and
Nick Castle (characters) ...

Release Date:

9 August 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Plan your escape this Summer

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Earthquake | Prison | Sequel | EMP | 2000s

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Kurt Russell	...	Snake Plissken
A.J. Langer	...	Utopia
Steve Buscemi	...	Map to the Stars Eddie
Georges Corraface	...	Cuervo Jones (as George Corraface)
Stacy Keach	...	Cmdr. Malloy
Michelle Forbes	...	Brazen
Pam Grier	...	Hershe Las Palmas
Jeff Imada	...	Saigon Shadow
Cliff Robertson	...	President
Valeria Golino	...	Taslima
Peter Fonda	...	Pipeline
Ina Romeo	...	Hooker
Peter Jason	...	Duty Sergeant
Jordan Baker	...	Police Anchor
Caroleen Feeney	...	Woman on Freeway

Also Known As:

John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (USA) (complete title)
Flucht aus L.A. (Austria) (Germany) [de]
Los Angeles 2013 (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Útek z L.A. (Czech Republic) [cs]
2013: rescate en L.A. (Spain) [es]
Apodrasi apo to Los Angeles (Greece) [el]
Bekstvo iz Los Andjelesa (Serbia) [sr]
Escape de Los Angeles (Venezuela) [es]
Flykten från L.A. (Sweden) [sv]
Fuga da Los Angeles (Italy) [it]
Fuga de Los Angeles (Portugal) [pt]
Ha-Briha M'Los Angeles (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
John Carpenter's Flucht aus L.A. (Germany) (complete title) [de]
Los Angeles'tan kaçis (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Menekülés Los Angelesböl (Hungary) [hu]
Pako L.A.:sta (Finland) [fi]
Pobeg iz Los Angelesa (Slovenia) [sl]
Ucieczka z Los Angeles (Poland) [pl]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #34442) | Iceland:16 | Sweden:15 | France:-12 | South Korea:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Denmark:15 | Brazil:14 | New Zealand:M | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:16 (w) | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:18 | UK:15 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

There are several references to Snake Plissken and the city of Cleveland. This is an in-joke reference to a friend of John Carpenter's who knew a guy from Cleveland named Snake Plissken; this is supposedly where Carpenter got the name for the character when he was writing Escape from New York (1981)

Goofs:

Continuity: In the final fight scene between Snake and Cuervo, Cuervo's knife disappears occasionally from the ground.

Quotes:

Snake Plissken: Let's say I come back and I have your black box. Who'll give me the antidote to the virus?
Malloy: A medical team will be standing by.
Snake Plissken: Neither one of you will be there?
Malloy: No.
Snake Plissken: Good!
[Snake opens fire on them with his machine gun, but to no effect]
Malloy: Ha! Figured you might try that, hotshot. That's why the first clip is loaded with blanks. Bye bye, Snake. Good luck!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Soundtrack:

Pottery

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!!!!!