No Escape (2015) on Netflix
American Jack Dwyer and his family arrive in a Southeast Asian country just as a coup erupts. Rebels seize the city and begin killing foreigners, forcing the family to flee for safety.
- Netflix2.9/5
- IMDb6.8/1099,633 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes47%
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Plot summary
Jack Dwyer, an American water company employee, arrives in an unnamed Southeast Asian country with his wife Annie and their two daughters, Lucy and Beeze. They meet British traveler Hammond, who gives them a ride with a local driver. The next morning, Jack leaves to buy a newspaper and is caught between armed protesters and riot police. The unrest becomes a coup, and rebels begin executing foreigners. Jack returns to the hotel and gets Lucy from the pool as rebels storm the building. The family climbs to the roof, where a rebel helicopter opens fire. They jump to a neighboring building and must find a way through a city where foreigners are being killed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about No Escape (2015)
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- Cambodia's Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts banned the film after a social uproar over upside-down Khmer lettering on police shields in the trailer. The ministry asked the producers to edit the Khmer lettering out but had no reply before the ban, said Sin Chanchaya, director of the Department of Film.
- John Erick Dowdle and his brother and co-writer Drew Dowdle based the script on a near-miss with real upheaval: a coup overthrew Thailand's prime minister just before the Dowdle family's trip there, with no warning. John said it left him wondering what he would do if things went badly.
- Thailand approved the film for release there only after the film-makers agreed not to identify the country as the setting or portray it negatively; they were told never to show the king or the color yellow, and John Dowdle said "no Buddhas... don't do anything bad in front of a Buddha."
