Big Trouble in Little China
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- Director
- John Carpenter
- Release Date
- May 30, 1986
- Studio(s)
- 20th Century
- Distributor(s)
- 20th Century
- Cast
- Kurt Russell , Kim Cattrall , Dennis Dun , James Hong , Victor Wong , Kate Burton
- Writers
- Gary Goldman , David Z. Weinstein , W.D. Richter
- Runtime
- 99 minutes
- Budget
- $25 million
Summary
Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 action comedy directed by John Carpenter. Kurt Russell stars as Jack Burton, a truck driver who attempts to rescue his friend Wang Chi's fiancée from the clutches of an evil sorcerer named David Lo Pan.
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