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Freeway

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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.... 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]

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

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Amanda Plummer, Brooke Shields, Michael T. Weiss, Bokeem Woodbine, Wolfgang Bodison

Director: Matthew Bright

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

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Reviews for Freeway

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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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 26 2006 03:16 AM

Time Out

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Joe Leydon

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 26 2009 03:17 AM

Variety

tomato
5/5

Rob Gonsalves

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 13 2008 08:03 PM

eFilmCritic.com

tomato
3/5

Cole Smithey

No review available.

comment Comment | Oct., 10 2005 09:55 PM

ColeSmithey.com

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3/5

Chuck O'Leary

No review available.

comment Comment | Sep., 28 2005 01:39 PM

Fantastica Daily

tomato
4/5

Kevin N. Laforest

No review available.

comment Comment | Jul., 11 2005 11:24 AM

Montreal Film Journal

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0/5

Mike McGranaghan

No review available.

comment Comment | Jun., 09 2005 11:37 AM

Aisle Seat

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4/5

Emanuel Levy

No review available.

comment Comment | May., 31 2005 11:49 PM

EmanuelLevy.Com

tomato
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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 30 2003 05:18 PM

TV Guide's Movie Guide

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4/5

Walter Chaw

No review available.

comment Comment | Jul., 08 2003 04:15 PM

Film Freak Central

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2/5

Lawrence Van Gelder

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 20 2003 05:23 PM

New York Times

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3.5/4

Jeanne Aufmuth

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 14 2003 05:22 PM

Palo Alto Weekly

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4/5

Mark Palermo

No review available.

comment Comment | Jan., 30 2003 02:04 PM

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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4/5

Scott Weinberg

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

comment Comment | Nov., 28 2002 03:27 AM

eFilmCritic.com

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3/5

James Rocchi

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 07 2002 01:22 PM

Netflix

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3/4

Margaret A. McGurk

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 15 2002 08:10 AM

Cincinnati Enquirer

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2/5

Philip Martin

No review available.

comment Comment | Aug., 29 2002 08:59 AM

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

N/R

Robert Denerstein

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 09 2002 08:10 AM

Denver Rocky Mountain News

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3/5

James Sanford

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

comment Comment | Aug., 03 2002 09:02 PM

Kalamazoo Gazette

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3/4

Liam Lacey

Cynical, stylish and witty.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 12 2002 08:10 AM

Globe and Mail

 
 
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