Inescapable (film)

Inescapable is a 2012 Canadian political thriller film written and directed by Ruba Nadda. The film stars Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei, and Joshua Jackson. Siddig plays Adib, a former Syrian intelligence officer who becomes embroiled in a cat and mouse chase while trying to locate his photographer daughter, Muna, in Damascus. After an assignment in Greece, Muna takes a detour trip to Syria, where she becomes wrongly accused of espionage and held hostage by corrupt government agents. Inescapable follows Adib's struggle to return to Syria after spending over 20 years in Canada trying to build a new life for himself.

Inescapable
Movie poster
Directed byRuba Nadda
Written byRuba Nadda
Produced byDaniel Iron and Lance Samuels
StarringAlexander Siddig
Marisa Tomei
Joshua Jackson
Oded Fehr
CinematographyLuc Montpellier
Edited byTeresa Hannigan
Music byGeo Höhn
Jim Petrak
Production
companies
Foundry Films
Out of Africa Entertainment
Distributed byAlliance Films
Release dates
  • 11 September 2012 (2012-09-11) (Toronto International Film Festival)
  • 22 February 2013 (2013-02-22) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryCanada
Languages
  • English
  • Arabic
BudgetCAD $5,000,000 (estimated)
Box office$4,327

Inescapable marks Nadda's sixth full-length film in her wide-ranging collection of feature and short films, all of which contain references to Islamic themes and Nadda's own Syrian and Palestinian roots.

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