Escape from Tomorrow

Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

Jim White (Roy Abramsohn) è un americano medio di mezza età, contento della sua realtà quotidiana. In vacanza in un parco a tema con la moglie e i due figli, Jim riceve l'inquietante telefonata del suo capo che lo licenzia ma decide di tenere la notizia per sé per non turbare la serenità dei familiari. In un disperato tentativo di distrazione, finisce però con lo sviluppare una morbosa attrazione per due ragazzine minorenni, confondendo realtà e fantasia.

Data di uscita
2013-10-11
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (249)
Durata
1 h 43 min
Generi
Horror, Fantasy, Commedia, Dramma, Fantascienza, Thriller
Regista
Randy Moore
Collezione
Randy Moore Tomorrow Collection

Cast

Curiosità

  • Girato a: California e Florida

Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American horror film written and directed by Randy Moore in his directorial debut. It tells the story of an unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort. It premiered in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later a personal selection of Roger Ebert, shown at his 15th annual film festival in Champaign, Illinois. The independent film was a 2012 official selection of the PollyGrind Film Festival, but at the time filmmakers were still working on some legal issues and asked that it not be screened.

Production

"There was nowhere else to do it," Moore says of his decision to use Disney World as a setting and shoot at the parks. Disney, which has a reputation for aggressively protecting its intellectual property, has been tolerant of visitors uploading videos of their visits to YouTube and elsewhere since most of those user-created videos project a positive image of the parks.

Moore used guerrilla filmmaking techniques, which sometimes call for using locations without getting permission. Escape from Tomorrow is not the first film made in whole, or part, this way at the Disney parks. In 2010, the British street artist Banksy shot a scene for Exit Through the Gift Shop in one of the parks with his collaborator Mr. Brainwash. They managed to smuggle the footage out after being detained and questioned by park security.

Extensive pre-production was necessary. The unique nature of the film shoot dictated steps not normally taken in filmmaking, such as charting the position of the sun weeks in advance since they could not use lighting equipment. Scenes were rehearsed and blocked in hotel rooms, rather than the actual locations.

Before principal photography, the cast and crew bought season passes to both Disneyland Park and Walt Disney World Resort. They spent ten days in Florida, then returned to California for two weeks at Disneyland, making the resort depicted in the film a combination of both properties. Actors and crew entered the parks in small groups to avoid attracting attention.

The film was shot using the video mode of two Canon EOS 5D Mark II and one Canon EOS 1D Mark IV digital single-lens reflex camera, which helped the filmmakers look more like typical park visitors. To compensate for their inability to control the lighting, the film was shot in monochrome mode. "[W]e were shooting with really fast lenses wide open, so our depth of field was razor thin.

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