Directed by John Carpenter, Escape from New York stars Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, a convicted former soldier sent into a dystopian Manhattan that has been transformed into a maximum-security prison. With the U.S. President held hostage inside the city and a strict deadline closing in, Snake must navigate rival gangs and a collapsed urban society to get him out. Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine and Donald Pleasence co-star in Carpenter’s dystopian action classic.

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In a dystopian 1997, a soldier-turned-bank robber is tasked with rescuing the U.S. President after he crashes into Manhattan, which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison.