Overwiew :A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest. Interracial Relationship / Based On Novel / Interrogation / Title Spoken By Character / Lying
Starring :Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Aunjanue Ellis, Anthony Mackie, LaTanya Richardson, Clarke Peters, Peter Friedman, Domenick Lombardozzi, Aasif Mandvi, Philip Bosco, Fly Williams, Portia, Haneefah Wood, Dorian Missick, Joe Forbrich, Donna Cutugno, Genevieve Hudson Price, Calvin Hart, Marlon Sherman, Firefighter Bill Walsh, Patricia Mauceri, Richard Price, Catrina Ganey, Liza Colon-Zayas, Teodorina Bello, DC Benny, Maduka Steady, Jason Furlani, Chance Kelly, Danielle Carter, Brandon Bennett, Ira Hawkins, Sharon Washington, Ernestine Jackson, Socorro Santiago, Cheryl Wills, Leonard Thomas, Brian Dykstra, Jamel Scott, Gil Deeble, Amanda Seales, Shawn Andrew, Jarrod Gandy, Cameron Steele, Jasmine Walker, Timothy Shannon, Oscar A. Colon, Marisa Redanty, Adam Kulbersh, Sapphire Quick, Steven G. Smith
Producers :
Charles Newirth, Scott Rudin, Richard Baratta
Writers :
Richard Price, Richard Price
Critic Reviews
Grade
USA Today - Claudia Puig : Steer clear of Freedomland... more...
C-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : ...challenging, engaging and free of the usual thriller cliches. more...
B-
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle : What saves Freedomland are the individual scenes and the interplay of people. more...
B
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : Every grace note is blunted by director Joe Roth, who displays no feel for the material. more...
D
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : ...one of an increasingly endangered species: the adult movie that's about something. more...
B
New York Times - Manohla Dargis : ...an early candidate for worst film of the year ... more...
F
New York Post - Lou Lumenick : ...embarrassing fiasco... more...
D
Hollywood Reporter - Sheri Linden : Crime is merely the starting point for this dark, involving drama. more...
A-
filmcritic.com - Sean O'Connell : In seconds, Freedomland goes from zero to 60. more...
B
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman : ...a hokey and diagrammed affair... more...
B-
E! Online - It's a big lumpy mess of a movie, with a screaming, crying and babbling Moore at the center : http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,89139,00.html more...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : ...assembles the elements for a superior thriller, but were the instructions lost when the box was opened? more...
C
Boston Globe - Wesley Morris : ...an overblown urban crime drama that should be a lot better than it is. more...
C-
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum : ...Natalie Portman demonstrates tour de force weeping... more...
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