Freeway (1996)

Freeway

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 11, 2006

Pros: Just a kick to watch

Cons: Not for the weak at heart

Funnier than hell if you're into dark irony and sick humor. If you tend to take things to heart, then it's probably not for you. Reese somehow manages to pull off a sweet and naive (but surprisingly street smart) ass-kicker, while Kiefer perfectly portrays the sick, demented psychopath that we all fear. At it's very least, it's a disturbing modern-day version of the tale of "Little Red Riding Hood." At it's worst... Well, if you find it shocking, you should probably just stick with the evening news.

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Freeway (1996)

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 26, 2003

Great! Morbid, comical, dramatic, suspenseful. Excellent theme. Good chemistry amongst characters. Believable.

Freeway

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 11, 2003

It was one of the best movie ever Saw cause Reese Witherspoon is in it!!

Was this supposed to be a comedy or dram

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 7, 2003

If this was supposed to be a drama, I give one star. There was nothing realistic about this film. The situation were dumb and it was just plain silly.

But...

...if it was supposed to be some kind of twisted dark comedy, give it 4 stars. If your watching it with the your mind set on it being a comedy, than it can entertain you and make you laugh.

My problem was when I saw it, my mind was set on it being a drama, so I though it was horrible. My friend told me to watch it again with my mind set on it being a comedy. I did and found rather entertaining.

I remember coming out of the theatre

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 26, 2002

with a date,thinking "what the fuck did I just see??" My date didnt like it, but she got hot LOL I went to film school the next year.

This and "Mullholland" are two works of art.

awesome

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 25, 2002

this movie is great

She REFUSES to be a victim!!!!!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 22, 2002 | 1 out of 1 found this Freeway (1996) review helpful

This movie is wonderful, we rented it once out of curiosity and now we rent it for three weeks at a time. 'Freeway' is funny, depressing (only sometimes) and definatly twisted. You can watch it OVER and OVER again and still laugh and be shocked. I was never a fan of Reese's until I saw Freeway- now I respect her and her EXCELLENT acting- nice work Reese!

I love Reese Witherspoon

By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 21, 2002

Reese Witherspoon is so awesome i love her in this movie she is so cool how she acts!

Good movie

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 14, 2001

i luv this movie it was so good i have to go out a buy it. actors were cool.must rent movie

Gets kinda wierd

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 4, 2000

It starts out great. Our little red riding hood is the child of a crack whore, and who's step-dad is an ex-con. They get arrested, ans she runs off to grandmother's house. Then the big bad wolf picks her up, and everything goes downhill. The story gets kind of confused, and falls slightly apart, though the bit with Mrs.Wolf is funny. Starts great, but fizzles a bit at the end. Kiefer is great at death scenes though (so much practice!!).

Great Movie

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 14, 1999 | 0 out of 1 found this Freeway (1996) review helpful

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One of the best movies of the 90's

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 28, 1999

Little Red Riding Hood told in the style of Natural Born Killers. With Oliver Stone as one of the producers and screenwriter Mathew Bright in his directorial debut.
Reese Witherspoon gives a performance worthy of sainthood, as Vanessa Julia Lutz; a hard-edge teenage Texas transplant who (after her mother and stepfather are arrested in the film's opening scene for prostitution and parole violation respectively) spends most of the film basically trying to survive the rigors of California's "kid who commit crime do adult time" mentality after shooting Sutherland's "Big Bad" Bob Wolverton character.
This is 90's exploitation (i.e. Jerry Springer) done with an Oliver Stone/Tarentino sensability that works, and shines in every direction. Many subtlties and obsceneties later, we find out that a 15yo illiterate white-trash girl has a billion times more moral character than any of us.

[From a scene where Vanessa is being interrogated by the LA County Sherriff's Dept after shooting Sutherland's character]

<Detective Wallace> Vanessa, you have an opportunity now to clear your conscience.
<Vanessa> I told the truth...And truth is eternal..

But the best (read: my favorite) scene's in the movie would have to be the courtroom scenes. In the first, Sutherland's character is wheeled into the courtroom. His face is horribly disfigured from the shooting.

<Vanessa> Holy shit!! Look who got beat with the ugly stick! Is that you Bob? Why, I can't believe such a teeny weeny little gun made such a big mess outta someone.
<her attorney> Are you out of your mind?
<Vanessa> You are so UGLY Bob! You know this is gonna cramp your style with the babes big time. Don't you? Especially little Miss Priss over there [referring to Brooke Shields as Sutherland's arrogant wife].

And who could pass up the opportunity to see awful things happen to Brooke? I won't give away the details, but, let's just say I want to make greeting cards out of the graphic shot of Brooke splattered all over a wall.

See this movie. You will find yourself quoting Vanessa's brilliant dialogue, or your money back!