Escape from L.A.
Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
- Director:Kevin Reynolds
- Genre:Drama / Thriller
- Runtime:114 minutes
Cast
Kurt Russell : Snake Plissken
Steve Buscemi : Map to the Stars Eddie
Peter Fonda : Pipeline
Cliff Robertson: President
Valeria Golino : Taslima
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On August 23, 2000, an earthquake reaching 9.6 magnitude hits the city of Los Angeles, causing it to separate from the mainland by flooding the San Fernando Valley (now called the “San Fernando Sea”) and turning it into an island from Malibu to Anaheim. Just prior to this, an American presidential candidate (Cliff Robertson) who is also an outspoken Christian theocracist makes a doomsday prediction of the disaster during his campaign, saying L.A. is a “city of sin”, and that, “Like the mighty hand of God, waters will rise up and separate this sinful, sinful city, from our country.”
The candidate is elected as the new President and a new constitutional amendment appoints him for life and the capital is relocated to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia. The President declares that anyone not conforming to the new “Moral America” laws he creates (banning such things as smoking, alcoholic beverages, red meat, firearms, profanity, non-Christian religions and non-marital sex) will lose their citizenship and be deported to Los Angeles Island (unless they repent and choose the electric chair). Like New York City in Escape from New York, Los Angeles is turned into a penal colony of sorts. A containment wall is built around the shore of the island, armed guards and watchtowers are posted, and those sent to the island are exiled permanently.
In 2013, Cuervo Jones (played by Georges Corraface), a Shining Path Peruvian Revolutionary, seduces the President’s daughter, Utopia (played by A.J. Langer), via a holographic Internet system and brainwashes her into stealing her father’s remote control to the “Sword of Damocles” super weapon—a series of high-tech satellites capable of destroying electronics anywhere on the planet using a focused electromagnetic pulse. The President had threatened to use the system to render enemies of America “unable to function”, and eventually dominate the world. While traveling aboard Air Force Three, Utopia leaves the plane in an escape pod and lands on L.A. Island to join with Cuervo. Read more
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