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.
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Studio
Taft Entertainment Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Big Trouble in Little China performed
Budget
$25.0M
Worldwide Gross
$11.1M
Gross Profit
−$13.9M
Return
0.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Jack Burton
Kurt Russell
Jack Burton
Gracie Law
Kim Cattrall
Gracie Law
Wang Chi
Dennis Dun
Wang Chi
David Lo Pan
James Hong
David Lo Pan
Egg Shen
Victor Wong
Egg Shen
Margo
Kate Burton
Margo
Eddie Lee
Donald Li
Eddie Lee
Thunder
Carter Huang Chia-Ta
Thunder
Rain
Peter Kwong
Rain
Lightning
James Pax
Lightning
Miao Yin
Suzee Pai
Miao Yin
Uncle Chu
Chao Li Chi
Uncle Chu
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