ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW (Randy Moore) Rating: NNNN
Writer/director Randy Moore’s debut is a remarkable, at times totally unbelievable, achievement.
Shot on location at Disney theme parks by a crew posing as tourists, Escape From Tomorrow turns Disney’s corporate fairy tale mythology inside out. Jim (Roy Abramsohn) is a normal, middle-class American father who finds out during a family vacation to Disney World that he’s been laid off. He hides the news from his family as he shuffles through various Disney attractions and idly stalks two giddy teenage Parisian girls.
The out-of-the-box dream vacation soon curdles into a nightmare: Jim starts hallucinating and hearing rumours of a seedy Disney underbelly, where the princesses serve as courtesans to wealthy tourists and the iconic Jumbo Disney Turkey Legs are are actually made from harvested emu meat.
Even when its various surrealist touches don’t quite hang together, Moore’s film works as an impressive – and vital – bit of guerrilla filmmaking.
