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Escape From L.A. (1996)
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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,...
| Release Date: | August 9th, 1996 |
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$25,477,365 (US)
$0 (World) |
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"The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women - unless you're married - no foul language, no red meat!" This political statement makes for an interesting topic on where the country may be heading in the age of political correctness, but it really didn't do anything in a movie that...
(complete Escape From L.A. review by Movie Addict)
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