Some movies -- particularly the braying blockbusters of summer -- give us the opportunity to escape from reality. But in several released this month, characters are just trying to escape with their lives.
No less than four titles opening in October revolve around tense survival stories. This week alone finds two of them hitting theaters: In 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor portrays kidnapped free man Solomon Northup, who was forced into hard labor at various plantations in the 1840s and endured grueling treatment at the hands of his owners; meanwhile, Robert Redford struggles against the forces of nature while hopelessly adrift in the middle of the Indian Ocean in the nearly wordless All Is Lost.
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