Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.
- prison
- martial arts
- showdown
- usa president
- war veteran
- dystopia
- anti hero
- post-apocalyptic future
- earthquake
- attempt to escape
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Cliff Robertson — President
- Bruce Campbell — Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
- Pam Grier — Hershe Las Palamas
- Peter Fonda — Pipeline
- Georges Corraface — Cuervo Jones
- Robert Carradine — Skinhead
- Michelle Forbes — Brazen
- Valeria Golino — Taslima
- Peter Jason — Duty Sergeant
- Leland Orser — Test Tube
- Jeff Imada — Saigon Shadow
- Directed
- John Carpenter
- Written
- Debra Hill, Kurt Russell, John Carpenter
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 1,647 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1981Escape from New York
Where it starts.
Escape from L.A.
1996 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
