Big Trouble in Little China

1986 · directed by John Carpenter

Rating

68/100

Hit

no

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.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986), directed by John Carpenter, rates 68/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Kurt Russell
• Kim Cattrall
• Dennis Dun
• James Hong
• Victor Wong
• Kate Burton
• Donald Li
• Carter Huang Chia-Ta
• Peter Kwong
• James Pax

Crew

• Dean Cundey — Director of Photography
• Edward A. Warschilka — Editor
• Mark Warner — Editor
• Steve Mirkovich — Editor
• Alan Howarth — Original Music Composer
• John Carpenter — Original Music Composer
• David Z. Weinstein — Screenplay
• Gary Goldman — Screenplay

More from John Carpenter

1. Halloween (1978) — 84/100 · hit
2. The Thing (1982) — 80/100 · hit
3. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) — 80/100 · hit
4. Escape from New York (1981) — 75/100
5. Someone's Watching Me! (1978) — 74/100 · TV film, not counted
6. Cigarette Burns (2005) — 74/100 · TV film, not counted

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