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Released
2015 · FILM

No Escape

When a U.S. engineer’s family is trapped in the midst of a violent coup abroad, he must outsmart ruthless forces and race through a lawless city to escape before foreign nationals are summarily executed.

Survive together or die together

Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
103 min
ActionAdventureDrama

Synopsis

An American family settles into their new life abroad, only to be thrust into the chaos of a coup. As the political situation deteriorates, they scramble to find a way to escape a country where foreigners are being summarily executed.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 47+ credited

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 Elliot GreenbergShot by Leo HinstinScored by Marco BeltramiDesigned by Arvinder Greywal

Box Office

2015 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× 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

$54.4M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$54.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $27.3M 50% of worldwide · International: $27.1M (50%)

Opening weekend: $2.1M 8% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.1M8% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,007 theaters

Also known as

  • No Escapede
  • No Escape - Renn um Dein Lebende
  • The Coupes
  • The Coupfr
  • No Escape - Colpo di statoit

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