The story is a surrealistic nightmare where. Jim is plagued by disturbing hallucinations in which animatronic dolls on the “It’s A Small World” ride briefly mutate into fanged, blazing-eyed demons.Īnd he’s so smitten with a couple of cute French teenagers (Annet Mahendru, Danielle Safady) that he spends hours stalking them, frequently forgetting that he’s supposed to be watching his kids. In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed fathers sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with. Escape from Tomorrow made a stir at Sundance earlier this year because director Randy Moore shot the film without permission at Disney World and Epcot.

Jim is in no mood to play the happy husband and father at Disney World, but what the hell…he’s already there, right?Įxcept that his day just keeps getting weirder and weirder.įirst there are warnings posted about something called “cat flu.” (We later learn that among the alarming symptoms are hair balls.) Randy Moores Escape from Tomorrow, which was shot at Disney World and Epcot without permission, will be released in theaters and VOD on October 11th. While his wife Emily (Elena Schuber) and kids Sara and Elliot (Katelynn Rodriguez, Jack Dalton) sleep late in their Orlando-area hotel room, Jim (Roy Abramsohn) paces on the balcony in his skivvies as his boss informs him by telephone that he’s been canned. While at the park, he becomes infatuated with two French girls, and he begins to find excuses to follow them. On their last day of vacation, they terminate him from his job. Cinematographer Lucas Lee Graham employed small digital cameras that wouldn’t draw the attention of theme park authorities.īut equally as subversive is the movie’s satiric view of “The Happiest Place on Earth” as a shiny façade concealing a nightmare landscape of swirling, supernatural evil, and its depiction of the average American family as the joyless union of steady backbiting and sexual frustration. A horror movie, Escape from Tomorrow is about a man named Jim White slowly losing his mind throughout his family’s vacation to the Disney park. The cast members entered the parks like any other guests, and performed their scenes while surrounded by real tourists.

“Escape from Tomorrow” is about as subversive as movies get.įor starters, first-time writer/director Randy Moore shot most of it surreptitiously-and without permission – at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. the rigid law of the father.4 Escape from Tomorrow over-flowswithsuchsubstances,turningDisneyWorldintoasite of corporeal (not just corporate) overproduction. “ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW” My rating: B- (Opens Oct. Escape from Tomorrow might be a bit too sardonic and extreme for some, but it is nonetheless a brave, unique and unforgettable experience.

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