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Overview
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
John Carpenter (characters) and
Nick Castle (characters) ...
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Release Date:
9 August 1996 (USA) more
Tagline:
Plan your escape this Summer more
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. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(5 articles)
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a new word: SNAKE-TASTIC!!!! more (186 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 |
Additional Details
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]
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence and some language.
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Runtime:
101 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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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 more
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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) more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the final fight scene between Snake and Cuervo, Cuervo's knife disappears occasionally from the ground. more
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!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Pottery more
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What is "Escape From Earth"?more
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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!!!!!