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Freedomland (DVD, 2006)

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Richard Price's novel FREEDOMLAND is brought to life in this 2006 adaptation. A carjacking-turned-kidnapping provides the set-up for a complex story of racial and class divide, as black detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) attempts to uncover the truth in victim Brenda Martin's story. Bleeding and dazed in an inner city ER, Brenda (Julianne Moore) explains that on her way home from work in the projects of fictional Dempsey, New Jersey, a black man assaulted her and stole her car. Matters are intensified when it's revealed that her 4-year-old son was asleep in the backseat. Novelist Price (CLOCKERS), who also wrote the screenplay, has never shied away from the blunt realities and moral ambiguities of the contemporary urban experience. Though Price's vision is often unrelentingly bleak, and his characters are far from saintly , there's a weary hopefulness that birddogs them throughout. Stars Jackson and Moore turn in performances as incendiary as the film's subject, and the excellent supporting cast (Edie Falco and Anthony Mackie, among them) tackles these complex characters with both nuance and fire. Director Joe Roth (CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS) is given the monumental task of bringing Price's epic to the screen and his visual approach works well--all cinematic chiaroscuro and icy hues. Still, Price's themes of racial and class tension are rough, murky waters and require both a bold vision and a deft touch. As much as Roth is clearly passionate about the task at hand--setting an emotional fever pitch from the word go--the hopeful resolution he desires is not so easily attained, if attainable at all. FREEDOMLAND is a tough one, and although flawed, in the end, it's an emotionally complex, politically provocative film worth viewing.

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Actor
Edie Falco, Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson
Director
Joe Roth
Rating
R
Format
DVD
Release Year
2006
Movie/TV Title
Freedomland
Genre
Drama

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Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
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617
Film Country
USA
Leading Role
Edie Falco, Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson
Release Date
20060530

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3 out of 5 stars
by swordfish1560Jul 23, 2009
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While "Freedomland" has enough to warrant a viewing, say, the nice turns by Samuel L. Jackson and Edie Falco, it may leave you overwhelmed. The film wants to be both a thriller (you may have the ending figured out 10 minutes in) and a "Crash" race-relations companion. Those aspirations are well-intentioned (a bit too much when you consider the overwrought soundtrack)but jarring. There's not enough time spent on the characters who matter most and like myself, was wondering where the extra scenes were. Jackson does what he can, Julianne Moore redeems herself in the second half of the film, and Falco has a meaty secondary role as a child-victim advocate. At least the film WANTS to be about something, which you can't say about most films nowadays.
4 out of 5 stars
by ccr_toledoJan 09, 2008
Freedomland is VERY INTERESTING & VERY GOOD!!
A MUST SEE!! VERY INTERESTING, SUSPENSEFUL, AND GOOD!!! Samuel L. Jackson played a great role, while we didnt care much for Juianne Moore and her role, but with all that said... ITS A MUST SEE!! It was more than we had expected, and kept our attention from beginning to end! WE RECOMMEND IT!!! Rent It or Buy It? We say...... BUY IT!! Our Overall Rating: 8.5/10 THANKS!!! CHAOTICZ
4 out of 5 stars
by acci2512Jul 23, 2006
Flawed and miscast but good
"Freedomland" will not be a popular movie. The movie doesn't have enough action and the action is does contain is more to promote a message than to titillate. Its message is basically about inner city racism. Its about the fuss made over a missing white child in a black community. The story is about a white women who was car-jacked in a housing project and, unknown to the jacker, her 4 year old son was in the car's back seat. You'll have to see the movie to see the rest since revealing the story would completely ruin the movie. I really enjoyed this movie. I thought the performances by Samuel Jackson, William Forsythe and Ron Eldard were realistic and affecting. One standout was Edie Falco. She played a very unglamorous role and was powerfully affecting. She should get an Academy Award nomination for this role. She was fabulous. Another standout was Julianne Moore who was very miscast. I did not like her in this role. She played a very weak, flawed and emotionally stunted individual whose behavior at times turned my stomach. I did not like the character. The character was not written to be liked, maybe pitied and I think that aspect is what Ms. Moore was trying to evoke. I think she did too good a job at making her character weak and flawed and missed a toughness that the book's character had. To live in the environment that she did she would have acquired more emotional survival skills than the movie's character portrayed. Ms. Moore's character looked like she wandered onto the set from a suburban mall. Her looks and demeanor next to the strong Black women characters made her appear too weak and her obstinacy appears to be more stupidity. I think Edie Falco could have played this role better with her strength and then the revelations and breakdown when the toughness crumbled would have been more effective. The movie is unfortunately being advertised as a thriller and audiences expecting action and things blowing up will be disappointed. "Freedomland" is one of those movies that Hollywood doesn't get or know what to do with but it is a very worthwhile movie to see. I gave it a 8 out 10. I downgraded it slightly because of Ms. Moore's performance.Read full review
3 out of 5 stars
by 213spudAug 10, 2006
good plot, bad acting
This movie was alright. I didn't like the casting very well, but the plot was pretty good. Julianne Moore plays a mother who was carjacked with her son in the back seat, she acts like she's mental, not traumitized. You know somethings up the whole movie when you see how freaky she acts. I also don't think Samual Jackson was a great selection for his role. I would rather see Jackson in an action movie, maybe physically fighting crime, or as Dave Chappelle said, gettin his head bit off by a shark in Deep Blue Sea, but instead you get to see Jackson trying to be a mastermind, and in the end, he didnt even find anything out! It was kind of dissapointing. The plot was a good suspense film and kept me watching the whole time, but I also caught myself laughing at the poor acting. I'd recommend renting this movie before deciding to buy it.Read full review
5 out of 5 stars
by roosters74harle...May 19, 2008
FREEDOMLAND (2006,DVD )
THE TRUTH IS HIDING WHERE NO ONE DARES TO LOOK.RIVETING AND SENSATIONAL THRILLER.WHEN BRENDA MARTIN CLAIMS HER CAR STOLEN WITH HER SON IN THE BACKSEAT, THE CHILLING ACCUSSATION SPARKS AN INTENSE INVESTIGATION LED BY DETECTIVE LORENZO COUNCIL. THE FRENZY TO FIND HER SON ESCALATES INTO AN EXPLOSIVE NIGHTMARE OF SUSPICION AND ACCUSATION, AND THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH LEADS TO A RIVETING ACTION, DISTURBING REVELATIONS, AND A SHOCKING ENDING.

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Freedomland (DVD, 2006)

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Flawed and miscast but good

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