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His daughter Utopia steals the remote control for the system and escapes to Los Angeles Island in order to deliver it to Cuervo Jones, a Peruvian Shining Path revolutionary. The president intends to use it to dominate the world by destroying hostile nations' ability to function. has developed a superweapon known as the ' Sword of Damocles,' a satellite system capable of targeting electronic devices anywhere in the world and rendering them useless. Escape from the island is made impossible due to a containment wall erected along the mainland shore and a heavy federal police presence monitoring the area.īy 2013, the U.S. citizenship and permanent deportation to the new Los Angeles Island, or repentance and death by electrocution. Violators are given a choice between loss of U.S.

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to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia and enacts a series of strict morality laws. He orders the United States capital relocated from Washington, D.C. Declaring that God is punishing Los Angeles for its sins, a theocratic presidential candidate wins election to a lifetime term of office. In 2000, a massive earthquake strikes the city of Los Angeles, cutting it off from the mainland as the San Fernando Valley floods. The film later found a strong cult following.

failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. co-stars Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, Peter Fonda, and Pam Grier. A sequel to Escape from New York (1981), Escape from L.A. (stylized on-screen as John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.) is a 1996 American post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, co-written and produced by Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, with Russell also starring as Snake Plissken.