It's 1997 and Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the United States president crash lands into the city after fleeing a hijacked plane, a ruthless prison warden bribes ex-soldier and criminal Snake Plissken to rescue the president, who is being held hostage.

GENRE: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction
MPAA RATING: R
RUN TIME: 1h 39m
RELEASE DATE: July 10, 1981
STARRING: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes
DIRECTOR(S): John Carpenter
PRODUCER(S): Larry J. Franco, Debra Hill
WRITER(S): John Carpenter, Nick Castle
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