Escape From Tomorrow

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Cast & Crew

Roy Abramsohn
Jim

Elena Schuber
Emily

Katelynn Rodriguez
Sara

Jack Dalton
Elliot

Danielle Safady
Sophie

Annet Mahendru
Isabelle

Alison Lees-Taylor
Other Woman

Lee Armstrong
Man on Scooter

Amy Lucas
Nurse

Stass Klassen
Scientist

Randy Moore
Director

Randy Moore
Screenwriter

Soojin Chung
Producer

Lucas Lee Graham
Cinematographer

Soojin Chung
Film Editing

Abel Korzeniowski
Original Music

Gara Gambucci
Costume Design

Gioia Marchese
Casting

Sean Kaysen
Production Design

Lawrence Kim
Production Design

Arne Knudsen
Art Director

Katie Wheelock
Art Director

Alma Gamino
Set Decoration

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Audience Reviews for Escape From Tomorrow

• Oct 07, 2019

  Conceptually, this had a lot going for it. But the actual product is a fucking disaster. Escape from Tomorrow fails in basically every way it possibly could.
  Gimly M Super Reviewer
• Jun 26, 2015

  Man goes to Disneyworld and has a really depressing time. No, I don't recommend watching it ever, not even if someone pays you.
  Marcus W Super Reviewer
• May 30, 2014

  I've been dreading doing this review ever since I finished this movie yesterday. I have no real idea why honestly. It's not like anybody reads these reviews, I do them because I enjoy writing them, but this seems like the type of movie where if you disliked it its fans will claim it's because you didn't understand it. There's a lot of that in the internet, and with the anonymous nature of it, some people think they can get away with saying horrid things just because you have a dissenting opinion. But that's another discussion for another day, and another website. What is there to say about this film? One thing I will say is that it's certainly not boring. The problem comes in the fact that this is a concept and nothing else. I'd like to say that the first 50 minutes, or so, of the movie are deliberately paced, but I can't. Nothing really happens outside of Jim constantly following some Parisian teenagers, like a pervert, and seeing surrealist visions as he's going on the rides at Disney World. Things start to get even crazier near the end, but by this point it's just simply too late. People made such a big deal about the film, and how it was shot, at Disney World without their permission, that I think people actually forgot that they hadn't seen the final product yet. I think it takes a LOT of balls to do what these people did, and how they actually pulled it off without any of the workers at Disney picking up on it. I have tons of respect for the cast and crew for managing to pull this off. But the fact of the matter is this, that there's nothing in this movie that a first year film student couldn't have done, and probably done it better as well. I can't imagine how long the script was, there's literally next to nothing going on in this film. It's all running in place until Jim is incapacitated by the security guards and taken to Epcot people, which is when the plot, if you can even call it that, starts to reveal the big picture. I'm not trying to shit on the effort made into actually pulling the film off without no one noticing. I''m just saying that the effort to pull it off wasn't made into putting together a great film that would make all of this effort worth it. I'm sure the film has a deeper social commentary about mass entertainment, as is mentioned in the description, and how Disney, as a corporation, will cover up horrible incidents in order to keep up Disney World's appearance as the happiest place on earth intact, that part I liked, but I just feel it's a hollow way to give the film some depth. It doesn't work, in my opinion, because it makes the mistake of thinking its pretentiousness is substance. It's just not. I hate to bring up the comparison again but this feels like something a first year film student would do. At least the student film would be much shorter than this. This isn't really that long of a movie, but when you don't have NEARLY enough content to fill that up, then it can be a very tedious experience to watch. Cut this film in half and I'm pretty sure it'd be better. It would be a marginal improvement, as the script would still be lacking, but an improvement nonetheless. The film wouldn't have felt so empty, at its core, if it was only 45-50 minutes long. Now onto the stuff I DID like. I did think the film was very visually inventive and it hearkened back to something right out of Hollywood's Golden Age, even right down to the score, which was light. At least the film got SOMETHING right. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut twice a day, I suppose. I think it's obvious that I REALLY didn't like the film. I even think I'm being generous in giving it 2 stars. That implies that it's ok or below average, at best. And I don't think that at all, I think it's a bad movie that took a lot of effort to plan out and to actually film. So, for that effort, and actually getting the film distributed without Disney suing their asses off, I give the film this score. But I didn't think this movie was good at all. People made a big deal about nothing, that's all I can say. Maybe this film will endure and stand the test of time...maybe in 20 years this will be considered a surrealist classic. Or maybe that's just my imagination playing tricks on me.
  Jesse O Super Reviewer
• Apr 19, 2014

  It's almost like The Shining, but instead of a hotel, is Disneyland. A truly audacious and provocative film (maybe the first film to do so in a such powerful way in a long time and that might take another long time do see other effort like these), bringing a surreal and darkly humour and series of odd/creepy scenes. Sometimes the movie shows a poor chroma key in daylight, it's censure itself and bring in one scene an (probably) involuntary comedy. Escape From Tomorrow is an unique ride by Guerrilla Cinema, surreal creepy horror-fantasy, B-Movies, mad scientist pictures, Disney characters and the list continues without stop. Also very bold for bring the name Disney and Siemens as part of an evil plan. Randy Moore made what a lot of people call "The movie that in any logical reason should exist!" (With this phase of course is a picture that you must see) and probably the also called "The ultimate guerrilla film". Actually, I would give a three and half stars, but for being so goddamn audaciously bold and for being the first 'Disney movie' (without being MADE by Disney, but involve it) that I like in a really long time, I would give four stars. Walt Disney actually would enjoy Escape From Tomorrow, because the company that he create made really worst things in the last years, that an unauthorized cult horror independent film. This is a true MUST SEE. Fresh.
  Lucas M Super Reviewer