Inescapable Movie Trailer

Posted by Charmaine Blake on Feb 20th, 2013 in Crime, Drama, Thriller | 0 comments

Inescapable Movie Trailer

Inescapable is an upcoming thriller starring Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson and Marisa Tomei. In this new movie, Alexander Siddig is Adib Abdel Kareem whose life is turned upside down when he finds out that his journalist daughter, Fatima (Tomei) goes missing. This unfortunate event happens on her trip to his hometown, Damascus. Adib was exiled from Damascus due to suspicious circumstances and now he must go back after 30 years to find his daughter and to once again reconnect with the love of his life. Inescapable is written and directed by Ruba Nadda and is going to be shown in theaters on February 22nd 2013. Check out an early movie review written by Liz Braun below:

“Inescapable: A Politically Charged Thriller

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.

Alexander Siddig stars as Adib, a businessman living in Canada with his wife and two adult daughters. The older daughter, Muna, is a photographer travelling abroad on holiday, and Adib is horrified to discover she has taken a side trip into Syria. No one has heard from her since her arrival in Damascus.

Well aware of the danger she’s in, Adib reconnects with several people from his past and leaves home to return to Syria. He is determined to find his daughter and get her back home to Canada, but Adib has unfinished business in his native country.

He crosses into Syria helped by Fatima (Marisa Tomei), a woman who seems to have carried a torch for Adib for the nearly 30 years since he fled Syria. Adib’s own dark history helps him negotiate the bureaucracy and levels of paranoia in the country, but even his connection at the Canadian embassy (Joshua Jackson) appears to be hiding something. And an old friend (Oded Fehr) in the defense department is obviously less than thrilled to see Adib.

Damascus is a city mired in fear. Time is not on Adib’s side as he searches for his daughter.

Filmmaker Ruba Nadda brings her own memories of Syria to the mix in Inescapable, a story that reflects the tension and intrigue the director encountered during her years in the country. The film is shaped as a political thriller, but the emotion of a desperate father looking for his child makes Inescapable accessible; the stakes are personal.

All the performances are solid and it’s nice to see Siddig in a lead role, but the movie wobbles a bit in the action scenes, which could have used some beefing up. They reflect a lower budget. As she proved with Cairo Time, Nadda is adept at the smaller, more emotional story, and Inescapable may have been too big to tackle.”

The original article can be read at Jam! Movies

Inescapable is also an entry to the Toronto Film Festival last year. Don’t miss this hard-hitting thriller in theaters near you this Friday.

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Charmaine Blake loves movies, musical theater listening to music and taking pictures of anything that she finds interesting. She is a voracious reader and writer, and enjoys her time writing for New Movie Launches. Charmaine loves spending time with her pets and currently has a Siberian Husky, a toy poodle and a cat.