Not exact matches
The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for
fantasy violence) Epic
escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures
into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.
It falls
into the family of teen
escapist fantasy that seemed to thrive in the 80s.
The Cobbler (PG - 13 for violence, profanity and partial nudity) Adam Sandler handles the title role in this
escapist fantasy, set in NYC, as a shoe repairman who manages, metaphorically, to step
into the lives of his customers.
Science fiction,
fantasy, and other types of speculative fiction can be
escapist, but this genre of literature can also take you
into the heart of the matter relating to freedom and whether or not human civilization can exist without some form of tyranny.