No Escape (1994 film)

No Escape
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMartin Campbell
Screenplay byMichael Gaylin
Joel Gross
Based onThe Penal Colony
by Richard Herley
Produced byJake Eberts
Gale Anne Hurd
Starring
CinematographyPhil Meheux
Edited byTerry Rawlings
Music byGraeme Revell
Production
company
Pacific Western[1]
Distributed by
Release date
  • April 29, 1994 (1994-04-29)
Running time
111 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[5]
Box office$22.4 million[6]

No Escape, released in some countries as Escape from Absolom and Absolom 2022, is a 1994 American science fiction action film[1] directed by Martin Campbell. It stars Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Michael Lerner and Ernie Hudson. It was based on the 1987 novel The Penal Colony by Richard Herley. In a dystopian future, a former Reconnaissance Marine serves life imprisonment on an island inhabited by savage and cannibalistic prisoners.

It was the first film collaboration between the director Martin Campbell and actor Stuart Wilson, who both later worked in The Mask of Zorro and Vertical Limit, released in 1998 and 2000, and the film was also the third collaboration between the producer Hurd and Henriksen, after The Terminator and Aliens, both directed by James Cameron, and released in 1984 and 1986.

  1. ^ a b c "No Escape (1994)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "No Escape (1994)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 3, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  3. ^ Fabrikant, Geraldine (January 30, 1995). "Savoy Pictures' High and Low Roads". The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Cox, Dan (April 11, 1997). "Sony Pictures Entertainment folds low-budget outfit Triumph Films". Variety. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  5. ^ Bumbray, Chris (July 28, 2017). "The Best Movie You Never Saw: No Escape (1994)". JoBlo.com. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  6. ^ "Worldwide rentals beat domestic take". Variety. February 13, 1995. p. 28.