Escape from Alcatraz
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
1979 • 113 min • Drama · Thriller
Our family guide
Best from age 12- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 75 Audience · 3233 · 47%
Frank Morris, mfungwa anayejulikana kwa majaribio yake ya kutoroka, anapelekwa katika gereza la Alcatraz linalojulikana vibaya. Licha ya sifa ya gereza hilo kutoweza kutorokwa, anapanga kwa makini na kutekeleza kutoroka kwa ujasiri na wafungwa wenzake wachache.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 2/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Mazingira magumu ya gereza
- Nyakati kadhaa za kutia wasiwasi wakati wa kutoroka
What it models well
- Uvumilivu na ubunifu
- Matumaini katika hali ngumu
- Kufanya kazi pamoja na kupanga
Talk about it after
- Mfumo wa haki na kifungo
- Dhana ya uhuru
- Historia halisi ya Alcatraz
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Top billed cast
Director: Don Siegel • Crew: Richard Tuggle
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedClint Eastwood is at the top of his game in this thriller. He is bank robber Frank Morris, Incarcerated in one of America's most impregnable prisons, under the menacing gaze of warden Patrick McGoohan. He quickly concludes that he has little left to live for but escape.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersSeen this one several times and still is a well done and straight forward, well shot, escape-thriller with fine performances all around. Nothing fancy and just enough character development to make you care. **4.0/5**
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersGotta feel for this due to the later emergence of <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/the-shawshank-redemption/">The Shawshank Redemption</a>'</em> and even <em>'<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break">Prison Break</a>'</em>, but <em>'Escape From Alcatraz'</em> still merits its own props as a great film.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.5/10 (3,233)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Box office
- $43,004,381
- IMDb
- tt0079116
