Kurt Russell	Snake Plissken
Lee Van Cleef	Police Commissioner Bob Hauk
Tom Atkins	Rehme
Ernest Borgnine	Cabbie
Donald Pleasence	President of the United States
Isaac Hayes	The Duke of New York
Season Hubley	Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts
Harry Dean Stanton	Harold Helman
Adrienne Barbeau	Maggie
Charles Cyphers	Secretary of State

Director	John Carpenter
Producer	Barry Bernardi Debra Hill
Writer	John Carpenter Nick Castle
Cinematography	Dean Cundey
Musician	John Carpenter

It’s 1998 and the entire city of New York has been turned into a giant maximum security prison complete with mined bridges, unscalable walls and a paramilitary police force. Into this collection of the worst of the worst lands the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence) who is forced to flee in an escape pod following the terrorist hijacking of Air Force One en route to a Nuclear Summit Meeting in Hartford. While the President tries to keep himself alive amongst the population of hardened criminals with nothing to lose, former Special Forces hero turned bank robber Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is offered a deal. If he can get into the city, find and rescue the President, locate and recover a cassette tape filled with vital nuclear information and return within 24 hours, he can have his freedom. Just to be sure, however, Snake is injected with a microscopic explosive that is set to go off in that time. If he makes it, his life will be saved, his sentence commuted and he will go free. If not, he will die.

Edition Details Audience Rating R (Restricted) Country UK Language English Distributor MGM Home Entertainment Barcode 027616854773 Region Region 1 Release Date 11/21/2000 Packaging Keep Case Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3) Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) Subtitles French; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned) Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital Surround [English] Layers Dual Side, Dual Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 1 Features Theatrical Trailers Color Closed-captioned Widescreen

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