Narrator - Opening scene: 

In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. 

The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. 

A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. 

It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. 

The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. 

There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. 

The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out.   

Escape from New York (1981)

Escape from Death Block 1138 (Futuristic Prison movies)

Adrienne Barbeau, Donald Pleasence, and Kurt Russell in Escape from New York (1981)

Harrison Ford and Greta Scacchi in Presumed Innocent (1990)

Michael Shannon in My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)

Rebecca De Mornay, Eric Roberts, and Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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