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Freeway (1996) -- A twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile.

Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   11,230 votes
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Director:
Matthew Bright
Writer:
Matthew Bright (written by)
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Release Date:
3 September 1997 (France) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Her life is no fairy tale. more
Plot:
A twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 3 nominations more
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(4 articles)
Reese Witherspoon Lives Life Down on the 'Pharm'
 (From Get The Big Picture. 18 June 2009, 10:17 PM, PDT)

Reese Witherspoon as a Bad 'Pharm Girl'?
 (From Cinematical. 18 June 2009, 4:03 PM, PDT)

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Witherspoon Starshine more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kiefer Sutherland ... Bob Wolverton

Reese Witherspoon ... Vanessa Lutz
Bokeem Woodbine ... Chopper
Paul Perri ... Cop #1

Robert Peters ... Cop #2
Ben Meyerson ... Cop at Truckstop
Craig Barnett ... Cop #3
G. Eric Miles ... Cop #4

Wolfgang Bodison ... Detective Mike Breer

Dan Hedaya ... Detective Garrett Wallace
Chris Renna ... Doctor
Kathleen Marshall ... ER Nurse

Melinda Renna ... Female Anchor

Guillermo Díaz ... Flacco
Kitty Fox ... Naomi Frohlegger - Grandma
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong lurid violence and sexual dialogue, some sexual situations, drug content and language.
Runtime:
110 min | Australia:97 min | France:102 min | USA:102 min (cut version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:16 | USA:R (No. 34357) (edited for re-rating) | New Zealand:R18 | Australia:Refused Classification (original rating) | Australia:R (edited for re-rating) | Canada:R | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | France:-16 | Germany:16 | South Korea:18 | UK:18 (video premiere) | USA:NC-17 (original rating)

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Two-shots including Dan Hedaya and Brooke Shields make it appear as if they are close to the same height, but in fact Shields (at 6') is a full three inches taller than Hedaya (5'9"), and wearing the two-inch white pumps shown in the film she would have towered over him. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At the gas station, Vanessa comes out of the bathroom, slices the cop and kicks him to the ground. She has no blood on her front. In the next shot there is blood on the front of her shirt and face. more
Quotes:
Vanessa: You had your turn to speak! I think its only fair to get my 2 cents in. But when a guy does that and hurts someone who never hurt them! which makes him a criminal first and a sick guy second. Its like being crooked takes second place. And Bob, you're crooked, you've proved that to me tonight. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
DESCAFEINADO more

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28 out of 36 people found the following comment useful:-
Witherspoon Starshine, 29 September 2002
8/10
Author: Euphorbia from Oregon

In other hands this story might have become just another cheesy teen exploitation flick. But in Matthew Bright's "Freeway" we have a solid script, confident direction, an excellent supporting cast, and a gleefully twisted world view, all backing up a boldly brilliant star-turn performance by Reese Witherspoon. Her Vanessa Lutz is brazen, coarse, violent, manipulative, and seemingly doomed no matter which way she turns. But at the end of the day, of every day, she remains her own person, and nothing can intimidate or stop her. Witherspoon seems to live and breathe this demanding role, with never a hint of 'acting a part' -- which is to say she is doing some very fine acting indeed. Vanessa Lutz is a role like Forrest Gump, though even more challenging, where one tiny step out of character would spoil the whole thing. But Miss Witherspoon never misses.

Plus, it was great to see Kiefer Sutherland play a smarmy, goody-two-shoes psychopathic villain. Much more fun than his trained chipmunk limp-wrist tendentiousness in "24." I have seen no evidence that this man can actually act, but he really does not need to here. When he first appeared on screen I thought, 'Oh no, this movie's over.' But soon I discovered, to my delight, that he he had been cast precisely for his pathetic loser quality.

For some reason IMDB classifies Freeway as a 'crime/drama,' which mostly misses the point. It is a diabolical black comedy with lots of violent action, some of it realistic, but most of it wonderfully absurd. All in all it earns a solid 8/10 for being funny and satisfying, a movie which I would happily watch again.

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