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Escape From Alcatraz
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
Drama, Thriller - 1979
7.6
96%
76
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
113 min
Release date:
25 Jan 1979
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$8,000,000
Revenue:
$43,004,381
Awards:
N/A

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
It's an austere depiction of the tedious routines of prison life, and of the courage and strength of spirit needed in coping with unpleasant warders, tough fellow-inmates, and a life sentence.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
It's one of those very difficult exercises in which large emotions, like the compulsion to be free, are reflected in minute actions, like the chipping away at stone with a pocket nail clipper.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
What Mr. Siegel has made is fiction, a first-rate action movie that is about the need and the decision to take action, as well as the action itself.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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