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Rated
R
Runtime 99 min
Ratings
71% TMDB
86% critics Rotten Tomatoes
77% audience Rotten Tomatoes
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Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Release 07/10/81
Actors Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Directors John Carpenter
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Release 07/10/81
Actors Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Directors John Carpenter
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.