Escape from Tomorrow (2013) on Netflix
On vacation at Disney World, Jim White is fired by phone and keeps the news from his wife Emily and their children. Two French teenagers catch his eye on the monorail.
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Plot summary
Jim White is a blue-collar worker whose trip to the Walt Disney World Resort with his wife Emily and their children Elliot and Sara has reached its final day. A call from his boss at the Contemporary Resort ends his job, and he says nothing about it so the vacation is not ruined. On the monorail he notices Isabelle and Sophie, two French teenagers, and watches them without his wife's knowledge. The rides bring odd visions in which the animated figures of the attractions turn evil and his family turns on him. After an argument with Emily, he takes the children through the park himself.
Cast
- Danielle Safadyas Sophie
- Lee Armstrongas Man on Scooter
- Trey Loneyas Man on Scooter's Son
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Knowing Disney's reputation for being protective of its intellectual property, the cast and crew used guerrilla filmmaking techniques to avoid attracting attention: scripts were kept on their phones and scenes shot on handheld video cameras similar to those used by park visitors.
- After principal photography was complete, Moore was so determined to keep the film a secret from Disney that he edited it in South Korea.
- The film's writer paid for the bulk of the roughly $650,000 budget with an inheritance from his grandparents, triple what he had originally planned; he wrote the screenplay in a month, after reading Neal Gabler's biography of Walt Disney and taking more frequent trips to Disneyland.
- Unable to control the lighting in the parks, Moore shot in monochrome mode on Canon EOS 5D Mark II and 1D Mark IV cameras, which also helped the crew look like ordinary visitors. Because the 5D does not shoot RAW, he said the choice was irreversible: they could not go back to color even if they had wanted to.
- Scenes were shot on eight recognisable park attractions. One required waiting in a long line for the Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland, and the actors rode It's a Small World at least 12 times to get the scene right.
