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Escape from New York
When New York turned into a huge prison state, everything seems to have turned into the worst. That story began when a single air force plane crashed on the island, so the mercenary Plissken is sent on a mission to save the president from criminals on the island's ruling island. They can face a violent story of challenges and difficulties.
13 November 1935, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
10 November 1950, Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA
28 January 1945, Norwich, Connecticut, USA
16 December 1927, New York City, New York, USA
25 May 1949, Lake County, Tennessee, USA
14 July 1926, West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
31 October 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
22 March 1923, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
28 July 1939, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
1 May 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
29 April 1939, USA
5 October 1919, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
11 June 1945, Sacramento, California, USA
2 July 1949, Texas, USA
February 6, 1955 in San Francisco, California, USA
26 March 1950, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
15 January 1947, USA
23 October 1952, El Paso, Texas, USA
January 02, 2016
A marriage of character, actor, and writer/director of the first order.
May 15, 2015
Snake is Carpenter's fantasy alter ego, a man of uncompromised anti-authoritarianism. 'I don't give a f--- about your war, or your President,' Snake tells the police commissioner, voicing a sentiment that was hardly unusual during Carpenter's USC days.
June 17, 2015
A one of a kind apocalyptic epic that has yet to be rivaled in action and storytelling quality.
April 21, 2017
Maybe it's not John Carpenter's best film, but it's one of his most fun and the premise is irresistible: in the future, Manhattan has been turned into a high security island prison and Liberty Island is the guard station.
October 07, 2015
The pic functions well as both a prison escape drama and as an escapist film. It's far from a great film, but is entertaining and pleasantly cynical despite being so bleak.
January 26, 2006
The plot gradually winds down into predictable though highly enoyable histrionics.
January 25, 2017
Power corrupts. Truth is the antidote. And if the masters of the universe don't like that, it only takes one nasty bastard in the right place at the right time to correct them. The eyepatch is optional.
July 23, 2013
The movie proudly wears its affection for crusty Sergio Leone archetypes and countdown-clock suspense sequences; Carpenter was Tarantino long before Tarantino was.
August 30, 2004
It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape (and escapist) movies of the season.
January 01, 2000
When the final credits roll, you can be forgiven a vague sense of dissatisfaction, because the creativity that went into formulating the premise was never extended to the script writing stage.
June 05, 2007
A solidly satisfying actioner.
June 05, 2007
It's a rare film that has so many ideas and yet fails so consistently to make use of them.
