| | | Her Life is No Fairy Tale.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Spanish, Subtitled, English, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Kiefer Sutherland (24) and Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Walk the Line) set off on a trip through a weird world of fast food, faster kicks and one darkly funny adventure after another in this film the Sundance Festival calls "A unique and galvanizing experience!"
"...a pretty hilarious take on a pretty twisted subject." Christine James, BoxOffice Magzine
"Gives Little Red Riding Hood a retrofit!" Michael Sagrow, San Francisco Weekly
"Witherspoon is dazzling...an on-fire revelation!" Mick LaSalle, The San Francisco Chronicle
"...so shocking and fresh it defies description." Rex Reed, The New York Observer
"Two thumbs up!" Siskel & Ebert
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Audio Commentary | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 4/3/2007 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 21161 | | UPC: 00017153211610 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1996) | | | Sundance Film Festival, Matthew Bright, Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic |
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| | Professional Reviews | Film Comment
"...A gleeful feminist exploitation movie....Definite Guilty Pleasure..." 03/01/1996 p.51-3Los Angeles Times
"...Wolfgang Bodison and Dan Hedaya are solid....Danny Elfman's intense score contributes crucial energy, John Thomas' camera work is first-rate..." 10/11/1996 p.F14 Chicago Sun-Times
"...FREEWAY illuminates our secret appetites. Like all good satire, it starts where the others end. And its actors wisely never act as if they're in on the joke. Reese Witherspoon is as focused and tightly wound here as a young Jodie Foster..." 01/24/1997 p.32 ReelViews 9 of 10
The film works -- and does so manifestly -- because its intentions are clearly delineated. Using black humor, blood, and a pair of tremendous performances, Freeway hones in on its targets and calculatedly skewers them one-by-one. First up is America's welfare system. Then the judicial system. Then the penal system. And, when you put all the pieces together, you realize that Freeway is making a penetrating statement about the general populace's endless fascination with the lurid and violent. And, unlike Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, which was torpedoed by interference from the director's ego, Freeway drives home the point effectively. This movie is both grimly funny and thought-provoking...Freeway contains several great moments, many of which work equally well as social commentary and comedy - James Berardinelli
Variety 9 of 10
Since post modernism, fairytales just aren't quite what they used to be. The Little Red Riding Hood of the nineties has really wizened up. These days when she travels to Grandma's house she carries a decent sized calibre firearm and a good dose of her own militant style feminist politics: just in case she should run into the Big Bad Wolf...First time director and screenwriter Bright brilliantly transforms a childhood classic into a gripping parable which reflects the issues of violence and abuse in modern society...The humour is very black indeed and the violence so realistic that it can sometimes overpower the satire. But if you've got the stomach for it, Freeway is an intelligent and action packed thriller. - Joe Leydon
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