![]() ![]() Meanwhile his pretty wife, Emily (Elena Schuber), is a textbook nag, clobbering him for everything from poor parenting to general ineptitude. He's a loutish ball of lust who's willing to abandon his high-strung kids to chase after two French teenagers in crotch-high shorts. But if Disney is fascism incarnate - a lazy conflation of evils that does Moore no credit - Jim and his family are still unpleasant rubes. It tells the story of a unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort. Moore sets the Felliniesque tone quite cleverly, and what happens to Jim is, here and there, ghoulishly funny, albeit in a smugly ill-natured way. Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American independent horror film written and directed by Randy Moore in his directorial debut. Nubile teenagers become leering, teasing sirens scientists are exposed as raving madmen. ![]() Animals become grinning gargoyles, princesses morph into witches, and on-site nurses into full-on Ratcheds. Isabelle (Annet Mahendru, left) and Sophie (Danielle Safady) are the young Frenchwomen who thoroughly distract Jim from his wife and children.Ī fanboy's homage to surrealist cinema, Escape From Tomorrow misses no opportunity to make phallic symbols soar. And anyway, if you asked a random sample of Disney World visitors if they understood they were being taken for more than one kind of ride, they'd say: Duh, we're having a blast anyway. Clearly, first-time director Randy Moore hasn't been hanging with the pop culture critics. But as an expose of Disney's manufactured happiness, and by extension the sins of corporate capitalism, it's pretty stale news. Escape from Tomorrow might be a bit too sardonic and extreme for some, but it is nonetheless a brave, unique and unforgettable experience. Everyone kept saying, ‘See it here because Disney won’t allow this to be commercially released,’ as if Disney by itself has that power. True, Escape From Tomorrow, a handsomely mounted gallery of Mouse House cuteness inverted into grotesquerie, looks a sight more artful than do most home movies. What surprised me more than anything when we got to Sundance, says John Sloss about Randy Moore’s Escape from Tomorrow. is not in itself proof of cinematic daring, let alone quality. But honestly, how hard can it be to shoot a low-budget black-and-white indie under the noses of security when every Joe Blow in the theme park is busy taking selfies with the nanocameras of today? And let's be frank: Ticking off the legal eagles at The Walt Disney Co. With: Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn RodriguezĮscape From Tomorrow, a dystopian fantasy about a laid-off worker on the lam at Disney World, comes bloated with marketing bluster: The movie, as its PR people have been trumpeting for months, was shot guerrilla-style at Disney parks in Anaheim and Orlando.Ĭhunks of the movie were indeed shot in both those palaces of pleasure, and without permission. A Disney Fan Takes on Escape From Tomorrow He’d also hurled that stone at the idealized notion of Disney Magic and as such, you might think he’d raised the hackles not just of Disney as. ![]()
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