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Escape from New York
Escape from New York
is a 1981 American
dystopian
action film
co-written, co-scored, and directed by
John Carpenter
. The film is set in a then near-future 1997 in a crime-ridden
United States
that has converted
Manhattan Island
in
New York City
into a
maximum security prison
. Ex-soldier
Snake Plissken
(
Kurt Russell
) is given 22 hours to find the
President of the United States
(
Donald Pleasence
), who has been captured by prisoners after the crash of
Air Force One
.
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