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Escape from New York
1981
· Movie
· 99 min
B
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2046
- IMDb #1926
- Google retired #2259
- Rotten Tomatoes #2145
- Metacritic #1112
- Letterboxd #1709
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2742
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1939
- Metacritic Critics #987
- Metacritic Audience #1556
- Criticker #1284
- Douban #2176
- Kinopoisk #2786
- AlloCiné #1431
- Trakt #2063
Every rating
54–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 54, highest is Google on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a dystopian 1997, Manhattan has been converted into a maximum-security prison. When the President's plane crashes inside, a convicted bank robber is offered a pardon if he can infiltrate the island and rescue the Commander-in-Chief within 24 hours from the inmates who now rule the city.
Details
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Writers
- John Carpenter, Nick Castle
- Studio
- AVCO Embassy Pictures, Goldcrest Films International, International Film Investors, City Films
- Released
- 23 May 1981
- Country
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $50.2M
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Cast
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Awards
6 nominations total
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