Big Trouble in Little China
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.
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Signature
- Craft · Wonder · Action
- Worldwide
- $11M
Who's in it
Cast
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What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Big Trouble in Little China returned 0.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $11M
- Release date
- May 30, 1986
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Cantonese, English
- Country
- United States of America
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