Escape from New York | 1981 | Directed by John Carpenter

November 4 | 7 PM

This NAU tradition continues with Film screenings and discussions hosted by NAU’s own Paul Donnelly and Paul Helford on most Tuesday evenings in Cline Library Auditorium. This year we are celebrating directors on the outside of the mainstream. Free and Open to the Public

Following on the success of Halloween, Carpenter made this gritty sci-fi action film, which he had written in the mid-70s as a reaction to the Watergate scandal.

In a dystopian future (1997), Manhattan has been turned into a maximum-security prison, from which ex-soldier and federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) must rescue the president.

Rotten Tomatoes 86%

View the trailer here.

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