Freedomland
The truth is hiding where no one dares to look.
Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center.
After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) recounts to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) a horrific tale of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides Dempsy's urban housing projects from the blue collar town of Gannon, where she lives. She claims she was forced out her car by a black man, but during the interrogation, Council senses he's not getting the whole story. Only after hours of questioning does Brenda finally break down and confess that her four-year-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the stolen car.
Led by activist Karen Collucci (Edie Falco), members of the communities of Dempsy and Gannon unite in a search for the missing child, but the criminal investigation in the alleged kidnapping by a suspect who is presumed to be a local from the projects soon ignites long-simmering racial tensions between the two towns.
Based on the best-selling novel by Richard Price.
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Great actors - faqvideo
After watching the movie all I can say - Julianne Moore is so powerful as you can rarely see in the Hollywood movies. Seeing other female actresses getting Academy Awards while such actors as Moore having been left out - you shake your head. S. L Jackson is great as always.incredibly layered movie - Sally
I was amazed at how may layers there were in this movie. It's easy to see it as a "race" movie, but in fact it was about family and who is your real family. Brenda was rejected on every level by her own family. In the end, when she screwed up in the worst way that a mother can, she found a new family in Lorenzo, who was able to accept and forgive her in ways her own family couldn't. Both the writing and the presentation in the movie were incredible. This is the kind of movie that you want to think about for a year and then watch again to see what you missed the first time.Freedomland - ggd-
The movie was interesting overall, but the whole idea of Freedomland just seems to be so disjointed and not a part of the story line at all. Freedomland was thrown in the middle and then it was gone. It just didnt' seem to correlate well. Samuel Jackson and Julianne Moore in good roles.
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Great actors - faqvideo
After watching the movie all I can say - Julianne Moore is so powerful as you can rarely see in the Hollywood movies. Seeing other female actresses getting Academy Awards while such actors as Moore having been left out - you shake your head. S. L Jackson is ...incredibly layered movie - Sally
I was amazed at how may layers there were in this movie. It's easy to see it as a "race" movie, but in fact it was about family and who is your real family. Brenda was rejected on every level by her own family. In the end, when she screwed up in the worst ...Freedomland - ggd-
The movie was interesting overall, but the whole idea of Freedomland just seems to be so disjointed and not a part of the story line at all. Freedomland was thrown in the middle and then it was gone. It just didnt' seem to correlate well. Samuel Jackson ...