- Critics' Rating:
-
- Release Year:
- 1981
- MPAA Rating:
- R
- Genre:
- Action
- Director:
-
John Carpenter
In 1997, a major war between the United States and the Soviet Union is concluding, and the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes into the island, the president is taken hostage by a group of inmates. Snake Plissken, a former Special Forces soldier turned criminal, is recruited to retrieve the president in exchange for his own freedom.
