Big Trouble in Little China

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

Jul 2 1986 PG-13 1h 39m
Action, Adventure, Comedy

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.

Plot

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.

Written by

Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter

Directed by

John Carpenter

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox, TAFT Entertainment Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination total

Scores
# of Votes
159,679
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
Metascore
53
Popularity
NA