Escape From Alcatraz

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Critics' Rating:

Release Year:

1979

MPAA Rating:

PG

Genre:

Thriller

Frank Morris, a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz -- America's most infamously brutal and inescapable maximum security prison. Morris quickly realizes the prison's dehumanizing effects and clashes with its cruel warden . Fed up with life at Alcatraz, Morris and two convict brothers meticulously plan the unthinkable: an escape from the island.