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Released
1994 · FILM

No Escape

Marine Captain John Robbins, wrongly convicted of murder, must outwit a sadistic warden’s death‑trap island of cannibalistic inmates to survive and prove his innocence.

“No guards. No walls.”

Directed by
Martin Campbell
Written by
Richard Herley, Michael Gaylin
Runtime
118 min
ActionDramaSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In 2022, a ruthless prison warden has devised a brutal solution for his most dangerous and violent inmates: Absolom, a hidden jungle island where prisoners are abandoned to die. Marine Captain John Robbins, who has been convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to uncover the truth behind his alleged crime and clear his name.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Terry RawlingsShot by Phil MeheuxScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by Allan Cameron

Box Office

1994 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$15.3M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$15.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.3M — 100% of worldwide · International: $970 (0%)

Opening weekend: $4.6M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.6M — 30% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,763 theaters

Also known as

  • Flucht aus Absolomde
  • Absolom 2022fr
  • Fuga da Absolomit

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