Inescapable

Inescapable (2012)

You can never escape your past

Twenty-five years ago Adib, a promising young officer in the Syrian military police, suddenly left Damascus under suspicious circumstances. Abandoning the love of his life Fatima, he made his way to Canada and wiped the slate clean. When his daughter Muna suddenly disappears in Damascus, his past threatens to violently catch up to him. Teaming up with a Canadian emissary, Adib must now confront the turmoil he thought he left behind in order to find Muna.

Date of release
2012-09-14
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (65)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Thriller, Romance
Director
Ruba Nadda

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: South Africa

Inescapable is a 2012 Canadian political thriller film written and directed by Ruba Nadda. The film stars Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei, and Joshua Jackson. Siddig plays Adib, a former Syrian intelligence officer who becomes embroiled in a cat and mouse chase while trying to locate his photographer daughter, Muna, in Damascus. After an assignment in Greece, Muna takes a detour trip to Syria, where she becomes wrongly accused of espionage and held hostage by corrupt government agents. Inescapable follows Adib's struggle to return to Syria after spending over 20 years in Canada trying to build a new life for himself.

Production

Inescapable was produced by Daniel Iron and Lance Samuels, and executively produced by Killer Films' Christine Vachon, Myriad's Kirk D'Amico, and Alliance Films' Mark Slone.

Marisa Tomei plays Fatima, Adib’s ex-fiancé, who still "smolders with love and bitterness, but also knows that helping him is the right thing to do". After being convinced to forget her planned research trip to Syria, Tomei finds a Syrian woman in Johannesburg to draw influence from and emulates her speech and gestures.

Alexander Siddig plays Adib, a former Syrian militant who believes he has escaped his past until he is compelled to return to Syria to rescue his daughter, Muna. Siddig reveals that he agreed to do Inescapable because he knew it would be compared to popular films such as Frantic, Taken, and Syriana, stating: "Men are often horribly misrepresented on film. We're not as capable as movie characters, and that emasculates us.

Nadda praises Siddig's ability to convey intense emotions, stating: "He's just honestly one of the most solid actors I've ever seen in my life, and so I thought if I'm going to blow my career, go down in flames, risk it all, I'm going to risk it all on Alexander".

Joshua Jackson plays Paul, a Canadian diplomat who has a secret affair with Adib’s daughter, Muna. Paul has an ambiguous nature throughout most of the film as he helps Adib locate Muna, but then plays a more active and instrumental role during the final scenes. When Adib learns about Paul’s relationship with Muna, Paul’s motives finally become more clear.

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