Film · 1981 · Science fiction
Escape from New York
Directed by John Carpenter
1981
★ 4.6 editorial score
John Carpenter turned Manhattan into a prison on a shoestring and it still looks right: Kurt Russell plays a convict given twenty-two hours to retrieve the president, and enjoys none of it.
“Manhattan is a giant island-prison inhabited by humanity's dregs...Airforce One, carrying the President...to a summit meeting in Boston, is hijacked and crash-lands near the ''old'' World Trade Center, where the President is retrieved and held for ransom...To retrieve the President, the Federal authorities coerce a young man named Snake Plissken who's on his way into the prison to serve a life sentence for a gold heist.”
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