Joshua Jackson: Adib

TIFF Dept: Video: Why Joshua Jackson loves TIFF, according to Globe and Mail. Oops, it is Marisa, playing quite well under the circumstances Adib s old flame Fatima. It seems that, unknown to his family, the guy has a past both highly romantic and rather dubious once a member of Syria s military intelligence, he fled the country for mysterious reasons. His return, then, is fraught with danger, although apparently not so dangerous that Adib can t pay a bantering visit to a former buddy still in the intelligence biz, or drop in at the Canadian embassy for a quick chat with a hapless official and our first bout of maladroit exposition: This is a complicated bureaucratic police state and inescapable: The official trailer Joshua Jackson smiles on the red carpet for the gala presentation of Inescapable at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11, 2012. Reuters TIFF 2012 The fiction begins in Toronto, January, 2011, where the middle-aged Adib Alexander Siddig is an affluent businessman with a happy marriage and two grown daughters. His is a classic tale of immigrant success, at least until his oldest girl, on a trip abroad, makes a detour to visit her fathers native country there, suddenly, she vanishes. Dad hops a plane to Jordan, hires a cab, greases a checkpoint guard with two bottles of illicit hooch, then approaches the Syrian border in the dark of night. Happily, his crossing is eased by a well-placed bribe and a well-dressed woman who, behind the dark eyeliner and lush black wig, bears a curious resemblance to Marisa Tomei. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.