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Action fantasy tale about a wise-cracking trucker who attempts to rescue his friend's fiance from a 2000 year-old magician who lives beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. He must battle demons, goblins and other terrors as he makes his way through the magician's dark domain.

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ProducerLarry J. Franco

EAN5039036006606

eBay Product ID (ePID)3951785

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleBig Trouble in Little China

ActorCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Victor Wong, Kurt Russell, James Pax, Kate Burton, Dennis Dun, Peter Kwong, James Hong, Carter Wong, Kim Cattrall

DirectorJohn Carpenter

Subtitle LanguageCzech\Danish\English\Finnish\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2002

FeaturesAudio Commentary By John Carpenter And Kurt Russell\Scene Access\Interactive Moving Menus\Deleted Scenes\Featurette\Interview With Richard Edlund\Extended Ending\Stills Gallery\Production Notes\Cast And Crew Pages\Magazine Articles\3 Trailers\Music Video, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Run Time96 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs2

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Director of PhotographyDean Cundey

ReviewsNew York Times - ...Carpenter is conspicuously with it....An upscale send-up..., Variety - ...[The] costuming, sets, stunts and special visual effects by Richard Edlund are particularly lavish...

Special EffectsRichard Edlund

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Additional InformationA cult favorite (and one of director John Carpenter's personal favourites), 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. 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.

Movie/TV TitleBig Trouble In Little China

ComposerAlan Howarth, John Carpenter

Executive ProducerKeith Barish, Paul Monash

Sound sourceDolby Digital 4.1

ScreenwriterDavid Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter, Gary Goldman

Format DescriptionDVD 9