Inescapable R

You can never escape your past
Inescapable
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 2, 2013
  • Originally Released: 2012
  • Label: IFC Independent Film

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 468
The film tries to meld politically charged personal drama with the action-movie tropes you'd expect in a story set in the Middle East. (Chase through a crowded marketplace? Brawl at the hamam? Check!) Full Review
TheWrap
Feb 22, 2013
Rating: C -- Doesn't have the juice normally associated with such violent entertainment. Its interest in characterization is admirable, but there's little firepower where it counts the most. Full Review
Blu-ray.com
Feb 21, 2013
Rating: 2/4 -- The movie suffers from the conflict between its potboiler instincts and the filmmaker's understandable need to acknowledge the brutality of Syria's secretive regime. Full Review
amNewYork
Mar 1, 2013
Rating: 1/5 -- Muddled and inert despite the best intentions, this inescapably dull thriller plays like a Middle Eastern take on Liam Neeson's "Taken." Full Review
New York Daily News
Feb 21, 2013
Rating: 2/5 -- One hopes "Inescapable" is only a momentary stumble for this promising filmmaker. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Feb 21, 2013
Rating: 2/4 -- The plot unfolds at a nice clip, but at no point does director Ruba Nadda evade expectations. Full Review
New York Post
Feb 22, 2013
Inescapable is Nadda's first foray into thriller territory, and her inexperience shows in awkwardly mounted fight scenes and clumsy car chases, not to mention an almost fatally explanatory script. Full Review
NPR
Feb 21, 2013

Product Description:

A Syrian expatriate in Canada learns that his daughter has gone missing in Damascus, and returns to his home country for the first time in 20 years to find her in this thriller from writer/director Ruba Nadda (CAIRO TIME, SABAH). January, 2011: As the Tunisian government crumbles, protestors fill the streets of Cairo. Meanwhile, in Canada, successful Syrian emigrant Adib Abdul-Kareem (Alexander Siddig) receives word that his daughter Muna has vanished while traveling through Damascus. Left with no choice but to return to Syria and follow every lead he has, Abdul-Kareem enlists the aid of Fatima (Marisa Tomei), his long-lost love, and a Canadian embassy official (Joshua Jackson) in locating Muna at all costs. But by the time Abdul-Kareem realizes that the official may be acting on his own agenda, it may already be too late for both the desperate father, and the daughter who disappeared without a trace.

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  • UPC: 030306986494
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