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About
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.
Theatrical
Aug 9, 1996
Box Office
$42.3M
Budget
$50.0M
Return
0.8x
DVD / Blu-ray
Dec 15, 1998
Theaters
1
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment
Quotes
See all →Snake Returns to L.A.
Taglines
Snake is Back.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Choices and Consequences in a Dystopian World
President
What's it to be, Plissken? Us or them?
Snake
Shut down the Third World; they lose, you win. Shut down America; you lose, they win. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
President
So what are you going to do?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Escape From ... Collection
A John Carpenter action film series following the main protagonist Snake Plissken, a former Special Forces operative turned criminal who is called upon to breach dangerous environments for search-and-...
Cast
Full credits →K
Kurt Russell
Snake Plissken
S
Stacy Keach
Malloy
S
Steve Buscemi
Eddie
A
A. J. Langer
Utopia
C
Cliff Robertson
President
B
Bruce Campbell
Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
P
Pam Grier
Hershe Las Palamas
P
Peter Fonda
Pipeline
G
Georges Corraface
Cuervo Jones
R
Robert Carradine
Skinhead
M
Michelle Forbes
Brazen
V
Valeria Golino
Taslima
P
Peter Jason
Duty Sergeant
L
Leland Orser
Test Tube
J
Jeff Imada
Saigon Shadow
A
Al Leong
Hershe Gang Member
J
James Lew
Hershe Gang Member
B
Breckin Meyer
Surfer
I
Ina Romeo
Hooker
J
Jordan Baker
Police Anchor
