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)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:26
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
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.... [More]
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Amanda Plummer
Director: Matthew Bright
Reviews for Freeway
Top CriticIt'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 CriticA hip, corrosive and often hilarious entertainment, the movie strikes another blow for the American independent film.
01/01/00
Alive with the luscious turn-ons of sex and danger, Freeway is the most impressive debut film I've seen all year.
01/01/00
The great cast brings light-hearted humor and credibility to what could otherwise have been seen as a sickly exploitative (though well-written and directed) script.
06/05/02
No review available.
09/28/05
No review available.
10/10/05
The imperfect teenager fairy tale for the 1990s.
01/01/00
No review available.
05/31/05
Both grimly funny and thought-provoking.
01/01/00
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11/07/02
'Little Red Riding Hood,' my, how you've grown...
08/03/02
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
A wild, audacious drive-in attraction that takes the 'high' from 'highbrow' and the 'low' from 'lowdown' and shakes them up.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/11/05
Cynical, stylish and witty.
07/12/02
It's one of the sickly funniest movies you're ever likely to encounter.
01/01/00
I didn't particularly want to like Freeway, but I couldn't help myself. Reese Witherspoon made me.
10/15/02
No review available.
01/30/03
Rude in the way the truth is rude -- only funnier.
06/18/02
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