USA – 2013 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RANDY MOORE
The most provocative film from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW should not exist. Like nothing you've ever seen, Randy Moore's directorial debut is a bold and ingenious trip into the happiest place on earth.
An epic battle begins when a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairytale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious. An idyllic family vacation quickly unravels into a surrealist and darkly comic nightmare of paranoid visions, bizarre encounters, and an obsessive pursuit of a pair of sexy Parisian teenagers. Chillingly shot in black and white, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW dissects the mythology of artificial perfection while subversively attacking our culture's obsession with mass entertainment.
"Even the director doubted the film he secretly made at Disney World would get this far (Interview with director Randy Moore)
- MACLEAN'S
NNNN "an impressive – and vital – bit of guerrilla filmmaking."
- NOW MAGAZINE
"Filmmaker uses stealth to reimagine Disney dreamscape" (Interview with director Randy Moore)
- NOW MAGAZINE
Feature Video Interview with director Randy Moore
- CBC.CA
"...a bizarre but engrossing and entertaining hallucination of a movie"
- VANCOUVER OBSERVER
"Randy Moore shot a rogue film in Disneyland and lived to tell the tale"
- PRAIRIE DOG MAGAZINE
"...lurid and increasingly surreal"
- THE GRID
"It’s a cruel world after all in imaginative Disneyworld thriller"
- THE NATIONAL POST
"...even when the film inevitably goes off the rails in its final reels, it falls to pieces in fine style.
- WEVANCOUVER
"It’s a dark world after all."
- MONTREAL GAZETTE
"Still, the sheer fact that this film exists, and was filmed on location, is quite impressive, which should help ensure that ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW earns some sort of underground cult status."
- EXCLAIM!
"...an audacious celluloid experiment that, against all the odds, somehow works."
- IGN
"...bright, chipper, thoughtful, and optimistic guy who you never would be able to tell from talking to him that he’s just spent the past nine months or so talking about creating one of the most audacious exercises in filmmaking ever to get released." (Interview with director Randy Moore)
- DORK SHELF
4 Stars! "...daring, comical and thoughtful"
- GROLSCH FILM WORKS
"...it’s hard to ignore the strange beauty of newcomer Lucas Lee Graham’s high-contrast cinematography. If Disney execs sue, it’ll be because they want Moore and Lucas to work for them." (Interview with director Randy Moore)
- THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT
"...the American man has little freedom over what happens to him, even in the “happiest place on Earth,” where the shackles only seem tighter."
- TORONTO FILM SCENE
"...a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience"
- NEWS TALK 1010
"...where Disney princesses double as escorts, the food isn’t what it seems, and even the rides have it in for you."
- THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT
"...for anyone who's ever wanted to kick Mickey Mouse square in his padded, pious balls."
- SLANT MAGAZINE