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Escape from New York  (1981)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 1992
SYNOPSIS: In 1987, crime becomes so rampant that the U.S. government is forced to surround Manhattan with a giant wall and make the entire city a maximum-security prison (everyone remembers that back in '87, right?). Inside is another world, filled with gangs, drugs, and murder. The authorities don't care, as long as nobody gets out. When the President's plane crashes in the heart of town, the government calls in super-gritty super-mercenary Snake "Everyone-Seems-To-Think-I'm-Dead" Plissken to rescue him.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Most Ludicrous Premise
Would Anyone Notice the Difference?
Oh, sure. Like the government would wall off NYC and use it as a holding pen for the most violent and despicable dregs of humanity. Why would they spend all that money on a wall? Seems to be working fine as it is.
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
John Carpenter Giant in the horror/sci-fi directing biz: Halloween, The Thing, Christine, Starman, to name but a few -- and of course, some Smithee films. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Kurt Russell <Not Yet in Database> Teen actor in numerous Disney films turned hunk 
Lee Van Cleef <Not Yet in Database> Perennial badass action star who played bad guys, Western hombres, and martial artists, even though he's as Western as a Texas omelette. Was Hauk in Escape from New York, Sentenza/Angel Eyes in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Col. Douglas Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More, and Reese in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Ernest Borgnine <Not Yet in Database> Was TV's "McHale," won an Oscar for Marty, then played lots of B-Movie and B-TV bit parts; ubiquitous 
Donald Pleasence <Not Yet in Database> His bald pate shows up here and there in both Bad and Legitimate films and made-for-TV movies 
Isaac Hayes <Not Yet in Database> Composer/singer of Shaft theme; "Chef" on South Park 
Harry Dean Stanton <Not Yet in Database> Bud in Repo Man and Toot-Toot (the crazy coot) in The Green Mile 
Adrienne Barbeau <Not Yet in Database> She put the "Thing" in Swamp Thing 
George Flower <Not Yet in Database> Nicknamed "Buck." From bums to bartenders, guards to background patients, he's a contender for appearing in more Smithee films than anyone else, ever... Also wrote The Bikini Carwash Company
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