And we’ll never look at Spaceship Earth the same again. Before it’s all over, Jim will be convinced of a vast conspiracy that Disney seemingly knows nothing about. He’s drinking, and he’s hallucinating through awkward encounters from menacing park visitors to a weeping, paranoid nurse in the park’s infirmary, to “the Other Woman” (,Alison Lees-Taylor), a seriously over-ripe seductress who uses her kid, and his, as a way of scoring a little Magic Kingdom nookie. But Jim just grows more distracted by the two fetching French teens in short shorts, ogling them from one side of the park to the other. The parents separate, alternate taking the two kids (Katelynn Rodriguez is Sarah, even younger than Elliott) onto rides and into lines. He tries to make out a little with his shrill wife, Emily (Elena Schuber) on assorted tunnel rides and only gets a “Not in front of the kids” from “Debbie Downer.” ![]() Jim, staggered by his secret bad news, is off his game. That is just the first sign of Elliott’s six-year-old Aedipus Complex. His creepy little boy (Jack Dalton) locks the door so he can’t get back in. Jim (Roy Abramsohn) gets the news that he’s been laid off by phone - standing on the balcony of the Contemporary Resort (the hotel that the Disney monorail goes through) so that he doesn’t wake his family. ![]() You don’t have to be a parent who has survived dragging small children through the wonders of Walt Disney World to “get” the Gothic vamp “Escape from Tomorrow.” But it helps.Ī demented black and white acid trip through bad news in a bad marriage with bad parenting, all experienced at “The Happiest Place on Earth,” “Escape” is “Breaking Bad” without all the cooking and meth dealers.īut middle-aged man crisis? “Escape” has that.
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