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    Unique ID Code: 0000108418
    Added by: David Beckett
    Added on: 1/10/2008 12:56
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    Escape From New York

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    New York city is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane
    Certificate: 15
    Running Time: 99 mins
    Retail Price: £12.99
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    Content Type: Movie

    Synopsis:
    The year is 1997 and in a police state future the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. The rules are simple: once you're in, you don't come out. But when the United States president (Donald Pleasance) crash lands an escape pod into the centre of the city after fleeing a hijacked plane, a ruthless prison warden (Lee van Cleef) bribes ex-soldier and criminal Snake Plisskin into entering the hazardous Manhattan and rescuing the distraught president from the twisted world of New York and from the demented clutches of its new ruler The Duke (Isaac Hayes) in John Carpenter's cyber-punk, action, suspense spectacular.

    Special Features:
    - Audio commentary from Director John Carpenter and Kurt Russell
    - `Return To Escape From New York` featurette
    - Deleted scene: original opening `Bank Robbery` sequence
    - Trailers

    Video Tracks:
    Anamorphic 2.35:1

    Audio Tracks:
    Dolby Digital 5.1 English
    Dolby Digital 2.0 English

    Directed By:
    John Carpenter

    Written By:


    Starring:
    Isaac Hayes
    Donald Pleasence
    Ernest Borgnine
    Lee Van Cleef
    Kurt Russell
    Harry Dean Stanton
    Adrienne Barbeau

    Soundtrack By:
    John Carpenter
    Alan Howarth

    Director of Photography:
    Dean Cundey

    Editor:
    Todd C. Ramsay

    Costume Designer:
    Stephen Loomis

    Production Designer:
    Joe Alves

    Producer:
    Larry J. Franco
    Debra Hill

    Distributor:
    Optimum Home Entertainment

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