Escape from L.A. (1996) on Netflix
R19961h 41mActionAdventureSci-Fi
Los Angeles, severed from the mainland by an earthquake, is a walled prison island. Outlaw Snake Plissken is sent in to retrieve a stolen remote that controls a satellite superweapon.
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Plot summary
In 2013, a theocratic president rules the United States under strict morality laws, and Los Angeles, cut off from the mainland by an earthquake, serves as a walled island where deportees are sent. The president's daughter Utopia takes the remote for the Sword of Damocles, a satellite system able to disable electronic devices worldwide, and flees to the island to hand it to Cuervo Jones, a Peruvian revolutionary assembling an invasion force drawn from third world nations. Facing deportation for his own crimes, Snake Plissken is offered a pardon if he crosses into Los Angeles and brings the remote back, a job an earlier team did not finish. To hold him to it, an officer infects him with a virus that gives him ten hours.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Escape from L.A. (1996)
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- While filming a nighttime theme-park battle on a Universal backlot, radio host Rick Dees filed a noise complaint that forced the Escape from L.A. production to stop using live ammunition on set.
- Tony Hawk has claimed that he and fellow professional skateboarder Chris Miller worked, uncredited, as stunt doubles for Peter Fonda and Kurt Russell during the film's surfing scene.
- To recreate a ruined Sunset Boulevard, the crew built more than 120 shanty structures inside an actual landfill, and sourced 250 wrecked cars from a Ventura junkyard to clutter the post-apocalyptic freeway scenes.
- Escape from L.A. turned out to be the last film ever made by Disney's in-house effects studio, Buena Vista Visual Effects, which Disney dissolved after buying the rival studio Dream Quest Images.
- Kurt Russell instigated the writing, joining John Carpenter and their long-time collaborator Debra Hill, and took his inspiration from contemporary events in Los Angeles such as the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
