JOHN CARPENTER'S ESCAPE FROM L.A. (1996)

Directed by: John Carpenter

Starring: Kurt Russell, Cliff Robertson, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Peter Fonda, Michelle Forbes, Valeria Golino, Pam Grier, Bruce Campbell, Georges Corraface, A.J. Langer, Ina Romeo, Peter Jason, Jordan Baker, Caroleen Feeney, Paul Bartel, Tom McNulty, Jeff Imada, Breckin Meyer, Robert Carradine, Shelly Desai, Leland Orser

101 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

The year is 2013. Like New York, Los Angeles has been turned into a prison island for the United State's most undesirable criminals, like New York, Los Angeles is surrounded by a wall so no convict can escape from L.A and once deported to L.A. you can never return to the American mainland which has become a moral society. 16-years after he escaped from New York, One-Eyed former soldier Snake Plissken now the United State's most wanted outlaw is once again given another job for his freedom by the new President and L.A's security commander Malloy. Snake is sent into L.A. to recover a doomsday device that shuts all power sources on Earth from brutal terrorist Cuervo Jones and the President's runaway daughter Utopia who has been brainwashed by Cuervo into stealing the doomsday device, and the President personally wants Snake to eliminate Utopia for betraying her country. Like New York, Snake is injected with an engineered virus which will kill him in 9 hours if Snake fails the mission, if Snake succeeds in completing the mission, he will be given the antidote. Entering L.A, now inhabited by criminals, runaway teenagers, prostitutes and brutal gangs. Snake sets out to recover the doomsday device and kill Utopia, as Cuervo and his army of terrorists prepares to invade the United States and can Snake escape from L.A. before the virus kills him in 9 hours?

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