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Escape from Alcatraz
1979
· Movie
· 112 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #487
- IMDb #1045
- Google retired #1143
- Rotten Tomatoes #437
- Metacritic #885
- Letterboxd #1191
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #237
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1104
- Metacritic Audience #943
- Douban #601
- Kinopoisk #1024
- AlloCiné #386
- Trakt #844
Every rating
75–97
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is IMDb on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97.
See the most agreed on films →San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
Details
- Director
- Don Siegel
- Writers
- Don Siegel, Richard Tuggle
- Based on
- Escape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce
- Released
- 22 June 1979
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $8.0M
- Box office
- $43.0M
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