Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Escape from L.A. [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents in association with Rysher Entertainment a Debra Hill production ; written by John Carpenter & Debra Hill & Kurt Russell ; produced by Debra Hill and Kurt Russell ; directed by John Carpenter.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2006.

Description:

1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A chilling vision of the future, the film takes place in 2013, when Los Angeles has become a ruined landmark. 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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for violence and some language.

Subjects:

Penal colonies -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.

Weapons of mass destruction -- Drama.

Science fiction films.

Action and adventure films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Action and adventure films.

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- 21st century -- Drama.

Other Author:

Carpenter, John, 1948-

Hill, Debra.

Russell, Kurt.

Keach, Stacy.

Buscemi, Steve, 1957-

Fonda, Peter, 1940-2019.

Corraface, Georges, 1952-

Robertson, Cliff, 1923-2011.

Walker, Shirley, 1945-2006.

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Rysher Entertainment.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

Escape from L. A.

Escape from Los Angeles

Title on disc label: John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.

Based on characters created by John Carpenter and Nick Castle.

Special feature: theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Gary B. Kibbe ; production designer, Lawsrence F. Paull ; film editor, Edward A. Warschilka ; musical score composed by Shirley Walker & John Carpenter.

Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Georges Corraface, Cliff Robertson.

DVD; Region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital, English 5.1 surround, English 2.0 surround, French 2.0 surround.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired; language tracks in English (5.1 Surround, 2.0 Surround) or dubbed French (2.0 Surround), with optional subitles in Spanish.

Publisher Number:

33249

Other Number:

747184819

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

451269

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Escape f

Medium:

[videorecording]