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Synopsis: In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director(s): John Carpenter
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
1981
99 min
1,152 Views


...you'll burn these things out?

- Get them both back, Plissken.

And remember, once you're inside

you're on your own.

- Oh, you mean I can't count on you?

- No.

Good.

Tracer test confirmed at

Are you picking up the target blip?

Right on course.

Been a while.

How's your altitude?

Plissken.

Plissken?

- Plissken, what are you doing?

- Playing with myself. I'm going in.

Plissken.

Plissken?

I'm inside the World Trade Center

on the 50th floor.

- Just like Leningrad, Hauk.

- Is the glider intact?

Yeah, but taking off is for sh*t.

- I'll work it out.

- You'll have to use the east stairwell.

It's gonna take you a while to get to ground

level. Call me when you get outside.

I'm at the plane.

Nobody else made it, Hauk.

Wait a minute.

I've got his pulse.

Right up ahead, moving northwest.

Hey. You're Snake Plissken, ain't you?

- What do you want?

- Nothing.

I thought you were dead.

Hey, you don't wanna walk around

down there, Snake.

Hi, chief. Nice night.

Nice boots.

Nice boots.

Hey.

Easy now, chief.

I'm walking. I'm walking.

Mr. President.

I'm the president.

Sure, I'm the president.

I knew when I got this thing

I'd be president.

- Where'd you get it?

- I woke up and there it was.

It was like a miracle.

Oh, Jesus!

It may be just an impact

on the mechanism itself.

Hauk.

I'm right here, Plissken.

I don't know who you a**holes

are looking at, but it's not the president.

Hail to the chief

All right, get your machine ready.

I'm coming out.

Eighteen hours, Plissken.

Listen to me, Hauk.

The president is dead. You got that?

Somebody's had him for dinner.

Plissken, if you get back in that glider,

I'll shoot you down.

You climb out,

I'll burn you off the wall.

Do you understand that, Plissken?

A little human compassion.

You a cop?

No.

You got a gun.

You got a smoke?

Keep your hand over it.

It's all right if we're quiet.

They won't hear us.

- Hey, this is a real one. You just get in?

- What's going on out there?

Crazies.

End of the month.

They're out of food.

Do you live here?

Skulls? Are you kidding?

I'm with the Turks now.

I just got caught in the street after dark.

I'm stuck here.

A plane crashed seven hours ago

near 8th Avenue. Did you see it?

No.

Sh*t.

- You're a cop.

- I'm an a**hole.

Hey, wait a minute.

I know who you are.

- Yeah. But I heard you were dead.

- I am.

Snake Plissken. All right!

- What you doing in here with a gun, Snake?

- Looking for somebody.

- Who?

- The president.

Come on.

- He really here?

- Somewhere.

When you find him...

...you gonna take him out?

Take me out with you, Snake.

Why?

I can think of lots of reasons why.

Where you going, buddy?

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s.Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In the Mouth of Madness (1995). He returned to the Halloween franchise as both composer and executive producer for the horror sequel Halloween (2018). Carpenter is also notable for having composed or co-composed most of his films' music; some of them are now well-known, with the main theme of Halloween being considered a part of popular culture. He won a Saturn Award for Best Music for the film Vampires (1998). Carpenter has released three studio albums, titled Lost Themes (2015), Lost Themes II (2016), and Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017). more…

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