![]() Presumably, this is meant to be a great searing indictment of Disney's theme parks, or the edifice of American vacation culture, or nuclear families, or whatever the hell. Before the very long day is out, Jim will have begun hallucinating demonic figurines on the it's a small world ride (hallucinating, or seeing things as they really are?), hearing rumors of a strange "cat flu" running rampant through the park and attempted to combat the inevitability of his shrill, shrieking family by chasing a pair of nubile French teen girls from place to place. It begins the worst way possible for Jim, who receives a barbarically passive-aggressive firing from his boss, right before Elliot locks him out on the balcony of their hotel over looking the Magic Kingdom things get worse from here. The film depicts the final day of a Disney vacation for the most generic possible family: dad Jim (Roy Abramsohn), mom Emily (Elena Schuber), 6-years-or-thereabouts son Elliot (Jack Dalton), and 4-or-so daughter Sara (Katelynn Rodriguez). ![]() This film grew from the kind of idea that is only going to work one time - shooting an entire feature film, surreptitiously, on the property of Walt Disney Company theme parks - and it's goddamn criminal that the best thing that writer-director Randy Moore could make out of this ballsy and even radical notion was a threadbare David Cronenberg knockoff anchored by a screechy family drama in which any meaningful insights are drowned out by the noise of the some relentlessly terrible acting even by the standards of micro-budget on-the-fly independent filmmaking. Escape from Tomorrow is worse than bad: it's a soul-crushing disappointment. ![]()
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