Inescapable
The acting is superb.
Inescapable
It is January, 2011, before the Arab Spring begins to take hold in Syria.
Adib Abdel Kareem (Siddig) had made the perfect life for himself in Toronto: beautiful wife, two grown daughters, great job. He is a confident man, at ease in any setting - his Syrian background betrayed only by a slight accent and his daughters’ names, Muna and Leila. Adib is a man who has successfully built a life from scratch – a man who had left his past behind.
Until his daughter, Muna, disappears in Damascus and his past catches up to him all at once.
Twenty-five years ago, Adib, a promising young officer in the Syrian military police, suddenly left Damascus under suspicious circumstances. He left his entire life behind, including the love of his life, Fatima (Tomei). He made his way to Canada and wiped the slate clean. He never told anyone about his past.
So when his daughter Muna, a young freelance photographer, decided to visit Damascus on a whim, she had no idea what she was walking into.
As soon as he learns of her disappearance, Adib knows he is the only one who can get her out. He returns to retrace Muna's steps through Syria - a closed and paranoid police state. He enlists the help of Fatima and then Paul, a Canadian Consular official (Jackson) who knows more than he lets on.
In order to find his daughter, he must confront the past that he left behind. INESCAPABLE is both a tense mystery and a character drama held together by the universal theme of undying and uncompromising love between a father and a daughter.
INESCAPABLE is Ruba Nadda's (Cairo Time) third feature film and stars Alexander Siddig (Cairo Time, Miral, Syriana), Academy Award®Winner Marisa Tomei (The Ides of March, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Wrestler), "Fringe" star Joshua Jackson (will next appear in the Stephen Frears-directed drama, Lay the Favorite), Saad Siddiqui (Cosmopolis) and Oded Fehr (The Mummy, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Extinction and Retribution). Written and directed by Nadda, INESCAPABLE is produced by Daniel Iron (Cairo Time, The Bang Bang Club, Away From Her, Red Violin) and Lance Samuels (The Bang Bang Club, Lucky). Christine Vachon of Killer Films, Myriad Picture's Kirk D’Amico and Mark Slone of Alliance Films serve as Executive Producers.
Cinematography by Luc Montpellier (Take This Waltz, Cairo Time, Away From Her), production design by Bobby Cardoso (“Wild at Heart”), costume design by Ruy Filipe (Hotel Rwanda, Cry, the Beloved Country), and editing by Teresa Hannigan (Cairo Time, Sabah). Alliance Films is distributing INESCAPABLE in Canada. International sales are being handled by Myriad Pictures.
Adib Abdel Kareem (Siddig) had made the perfect life for himself in Toronto: beautiful wife, two grown daughters, great job. He is a confident man, at ease in any setting - his Syrian background betrayed only by a slight accent and his daughters’ names, Muna and Leila. Adib is a man who has successfully built a life from scratch – a man who had left his past behind.
Until his daughter, Muna, disappears in Damascus and his past catches up to him all at once.
Twenty-five years ago, Adib, a promising young officer in the Syrian military police, suddenly left Damascus under suspicious circumstances. He left his entire life behind, including the love of his life, Fatima (Tomei). He made his way to Canada and wiped the slate clean. He never told anyone about his past.
So when his daughter Muna, a young freelance photographer, decided to visit Damascus on a whim, she had no idea what she was walking into.
As soon as he learns of her disappearance, Adib knows he is the only one who can get her out. He returns to retrace Muna's steps through Syria - a closed and paranoid police state. He enlists the help of Fatima and then Paul, a Canadian Consular official (Jackson) who knows more than he lets on.
In order to find his daughter, he must confront the past that he left behind. INESCAPABLE is both a tense mystery and a character drama held together by the universal theme of undying and uncompromising love between a father and a daughter.
INESCAPABLE is Ruba Nadda's (Cairo Time) third feature film and stars Alexander Siddig (Cairo Time, Miral, Syriana), Academy Award®Winner Marisa Tomei (The Ides of March, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Wrestler), "Fringe" star Joshua Jackson (will next appear in the Stephen Frears-directed drama, Lay the Favorite), Saad Siddiqui (Cosmopolis) and Oded Fehr (The Mummy, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Extinction and Retribution). Written and directed by Nadda, INESCAPABLE is produced by Daniel Iron (Cairo Time, The Bang Bang Club, Away From Her, Red Violin) and Lance Samuels (The Bang Bang Club, Lucky). Christine Vachon of Killer Films, Myriad Picture's Kirk D’Amico and Mark Slone of Alliance Films serve as Executive Producers.
Cinematography by Luc Montpellier (Take This Waltz, Cairo Time, Away From Her), production design by Bobby Cardoso (“Wild at Heart”), costume design by Ruy Filipe (Hotel Rwanda, Cry, the Beloved Country), and editing by Teresa Hannigan (Cairo Time, Sabah). Alliance Films is distributing INESCAPABLE in Canada. International sales are being handled by Myriad Pictures.
Genre
Drama,
Mystery,
Romance,
Thriller/Suspense
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Runtime
93
Language
English
Director
Ruba Nadda
Cast
Alexander Siddig,
Joshua Jackson,
Marisa Tomei
FEATURED REVIEW
Liz Braun,Jam! Movies
In Ruba Nadda's new drama, Inescapable, a man in search of his daughter must return to Syria and immerse himself in the life he had hoped to escape forever.
Played at
NoHo 7 2.22.13 - 2.28.13
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