![]() Writer-director Randy Moore channels everything from The Shining to David Lynch’s Eraserhead to depict a family’s gradual disintegration in what is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth. ![]() Instead, he goes along as if nothing had happened, riding the Monorail into the Magic Kingdom with his wife, Emily (Elena Schuber), and their two young kids Sara (Katelynn Rodriguez) and Elliot (Jack Dalton). Jim (Roy Abramsohn) is fired via a phone call from his boss, but he decides to keep the bad news to himself so as to not ruin the trip. Shot on video using consumer-grade cameras, the movie opens on the morning of the last day of the White family’s Disney World vacation. (which sponsors and designed several of the parks’ attractions) decided to allow Escape from Tomorrow to be shown with only a couple of minor tweaks (including a sternly worded disclaimer distancing the companies from the film). That giant Spaceship Earth orb that is Epcot’s most iconic structure? You have no idea what’s really going on in there.īut instead of going on the attack to halt the release and provide the movie with free publicity, Disney and the Siemens Corp. ![]() Those beautiful women who dress up as the various Disney princesses? They moonlight as prostitutes for “rich Asian businessmen.” Those popular giant turkey legs sold at the parks? They’re actually made of emu meat. Shot without permission at the Walt Disney World and Disneyland theme parks in Florida and California, this unnerving fantasy dares to subvert the resorts’ family-friendly veneer in all sorts of queasy ways. When Escape from Tomorrow premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, few people believed the movie would ever screen again.
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