John Carpenter's Escape from LA – DVD

The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in Escape from New York -- with even more futuristic thrills and slam-bang action! Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device. Don't miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Boulevard, shoots hoops at the Coliseum, dive-bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park, and mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends, fiends and foes (Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Pam Grier, Stacy Keach, Cliff Robertson, George Corraface, and more). Escape from L.A. is a "go-for-broke action extravaganza!" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

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