Film

Big Trouble in Little China 1986

Directed by John Carpenter

  • Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
  • 100 min
  • PG-13

Jack Burton's in for some serious trouble and you're in for some serious fun.

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

ActionAdventureComedyFantasymartial artskung fumagicsan francisco, californiakidnappingchinatownmercenarymythologytruck driveradventurermysterious1980s

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