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Freeway (1996)

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Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 26  Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.4/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Synopsis: A hip, darkly comic on-the-road tale about a young woman who has an unfortunate encounter with a figurative big, bad wolf while hitching a ride to grandma's house to escape her abusive family. Little Red Riding Hood it ain't. A hip, darkly comic on-the-road tale about a young woman who has an unfortunate encounter with a figurative big, bad wolf while hitching a ride to grandma's house to escape her abusive family. Little Red Riding Hood it ain't. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Amanda Plummer, Brooke Shields

Director: Matthew Bright
Composer: Danny Elfman
Producer: Oliver Stone, Richard Rutowski, Dan Halsted
Screenwriter: Matthew Bright
Producer: Brad Wyman, Chris Hanley

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 4, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Matthew Bright - Director
  • Trailer - Original Theatrical Trailer

Reviews

 
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There's not much edification in store, and [director] Bright cruises over some bumpy plot holes, but the teen's perspective does put a black comic spotlight on wider social hypocrisies.

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01/26/06
Time Out
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5/5

One of the most stubbornly original and electrifying films not only of 1996, but of the '90s, period.

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02/13/08
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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3/5

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10/10/05
Cole Smithey
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3/5

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09/28/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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4/5

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07/11/05
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
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0/5

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06/09/05
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat
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4/5

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05/31/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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4/5

It's just the sort of thing Oliver Stone strove so hard to achieve in Natural Born Killers, and [writer/director Matthew] Bright pulls it off effortlessly.

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07/30/03
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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4/5

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07/08/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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2/5

Freeway glints here and there with dark humor amounting to a knowing wink that undercuts the cautionary tale at its heart and the seriousness of its graphic sociology.

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05/20/03
Lawrence Van Gelder
New York Times
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3.5/4

Freeway somehow manages to be hip, imaginative and hilarious. Road film, comedy, prison drama and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers all rolled into one.

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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly
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4/5

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01/30/03
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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4/5

Shockingly dark and nasty take on the Red Riding Hood tale.

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11/28/02
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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3/5

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
Netflix
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3/4

I didn't particularly want to like Freeway, but I couldn't help myself. Reese Witherspoon made me.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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08/29/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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3/5

'Little Red Riding Hood,' my, how you've grown...

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08/03/02
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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3/4

Cynical, stylish and witty.

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07/12/02
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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4/4

Rude in the way the truth is rude -- only funnier.

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06/18/02
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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