Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Action Fantasy Comedy Adventure

Rated PG-13 | Threatrical Jul 02, 1986 (US) | Genres Action, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure | Runtime 1h 39m
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Big Trouble in Little China Plot Synopsis:

Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.


Synopsis / Plot Summary: An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.

Tagline: Adventure doesn't come any bigger!

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Official Trailer

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Big Trouble in Little China Movie Information:

Type: Movie
Year: 1986 (more 1986 movies)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 99 minutes /
Genres:  Action, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
Directors: John Carpenter
Stars: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong … (cast list)
Release Date: Theatrical Release Date Jul 02, 1986
Box Office: $11,100,000
Language: English, Cantonese
Country: United States
Release Dates: Movie Release Dates / Big Trouble in Little China Release Dates In Theaters: Jul 02, 1986, Netflix: Jul 01, 2016
Writers: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter
Producers: Keith Barish, Larry Franco, Jim Lau, James Lew, Paul Monash
Editors: Steve Mirkovich, Mark Warner, Edward A. Warschilka
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