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
Freeway (1996)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 26 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.4/10
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. [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
Composer: Danny Elfman
Producer: Oliver Stone, Richard Rutowski, Dan Halsted
Screenwriter: Matthew Bright
Producer: Brad Wyman, Chris Hanley
Reviews
Top Critic
One of the most stubbornly original and electrifying films not only of 1996, but of the '90s, period.
02/13/08
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.
07/30/03
Top Critic
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.
05/20/03
Top Critic
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.
05/14/03
I didn't particularly want to like Freeway, but I couldn't help myself. Reese Witherspoon made me.
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