‘John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A.’

The President’s unhappy daughter (A.J. Langer) has stolen her father’s Black Box with its mysterious power to destroy the universe. What to do but maneuver that legendary one-eyed, leather-clad gunfighter Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell, pictured) into retrieving that box from the ferociously dangerous urban jungle L.A. has become? (HBO early Friday at 12:30 a.m.)