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Release Date
Jul 2, 1986 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 22, 2001
• R2: 6 May 2002
Budget $25,000,000
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
• John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts, Spoof, Fantasy, Supernatural, Kidnapping, Witches, Wizards & Magic, Culture Clash, Campy, Suspense, Slapstick, Monsters, Love
Tagline: Some people pick the darnedest places to start a fight!
Plot: A cult favorite (and one of director John Carpenter's personal favorites), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is a fantasy-action film that is brilliantly imaginative, funny, and absorbing. Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crimelord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancee to Jack's best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit. Carpenter uses all the best elements of martial arts films, 1940s old action serials, Chinese mythology and straight-forward American adventure to make up a tale wild with imagination. Kurt Russell is wonderful as the brash, brave, and reluctant hero Jack Burton, who is hysterically out of place in this world of magic potions, goblins and curses. A visually stunning work that ranks as one of Carpenter's best films.
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