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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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 |
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One of the most stubbornly original and electrifying films not only of 1996, but of the '90s, period. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Shockingly dark and nasty take on the Red Riding Hood tale.
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I didn't particularly want to like Freeway, but I couldn't help myself. Reese Witherspoon made me. Full Review |
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'Little Red Riding Hood,' my, how you've grown...
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Cynical, stylish and witty. Full Review |
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