Freedomland (2006) (DVD)
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Freedomland (2006) (DVD)

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New DVD. Running time: 1 h 53 min. Age rating: 16
Subtitles: english

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 follows 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 intensity. 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 an emotionally complex, politically provocative film.

Director: Joe Roth

Actors: Julianne Moore,Samuel L. Jackson,William Forsythe,Edie Falco,Philip Bosco

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