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The girls are still drinking scotch and playing Xbox despite their own instinct to eat ice cream. In limiting itself to these stereotypes, though, these reversals ultimately accentuate gender roles instead of disproving them. At the start of the film, Jason reprimands Mikey for comforting himself with Ben & Jerry’s when his wife asks for a divorce, asking, “What are you, Bridget Jones? ” When we see Mikey and Jason indulge in both ice cream and scotch near the end of the film, we are meant to take this as a genre-conscious demonstration of the pair embracing both their masculine and feminine sides. What it really signifies is a laziness on the part of the writing, which relies heavily on tropes throughout, whether they are spun into faux gender role inversions or not. “No Escape,” a thriller about an American family ensnared in a violent political coup in a nameless Asian country, finished in fourth place with $8.2 million from 3,355 locations. This more inclusive approach has i...