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Where was Escape from L.A. filmed?

1996 film, directed by John Carpenter.

  • Long Beach

The story is set in Los Angeles, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Los Angeles
Filmed in
Long Beach
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About Escape from L.A.

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Released
1996
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Stacy KeachSteve BuscemiPeter FondaGeorges CorrafaceCliff RobertsonMichelle ForbesKurt RussellPam GrierValeria GolinoA. J. Langer
Genre
ActionScience FictionPost-apocalypticDystopian

In 2000, a massive earthquake strikes the city of L.A., cutting it off from the mainland as the San Fernando Valley floods.

Violators are given a choice between loss of U.S. citizenship and permanent deportation to the new L.A.

His daughter Utopia steals the remote control for the system and escapes to L.A. to deliver it to Cuervo Jones, a Peruvian Shining Path revolutionary.

Famous lines from Escape from L.A.

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