This is not a film for everyone, in fact, it’s main appeal is in the gross fascination for the grotesque.
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Freeway (1996)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:26
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.4/10
Synopsis: 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.... [More]
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Amanda Plummer
Director: Matthew Bright
Reviews for Freeway
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03/26/09
Top CriticOne of the most stubbornly original and electrifying films not only of 1996, but of the '90s, period.
02/13/08
There's not much edification in store, and [director] Bright cruises over some bumpy plot holes, but the teen's perspective does put a black comic spotlight on wider social hypocrisies.
01/26/06
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10/10/05
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09/28/05
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07/11/05
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06/09/05
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05/31/05
It's just the sort of thing Oliver Stone strove so hard to achieve in Natural Born Killers, and [writer/director Matthew] Bright pulls it off effortlessly.
07/30/03
No review available.
07/08/03
Freeway glints here and there with dark humor amounting to a knowing wink that undercuts the cautionary tale at its heart and the seriousness of its graphic sociology.
05/20/03
Top CriticFreeway somehow manages to be hip, imaginative and hilarious. Road film, comedy, prison drama and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers all rolled into one.
05/14/03
No review available.
01/30/03
Shockingly dark and nasty take on the Red Riding Hood tale.
11/28/02
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11/07/02
I didn't particularly want to like Freeway, but I couldn't help myself. Reese Witherspoon made me.
10/15/02
No review available.
08/29/02
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08/09/02
'Little Red Riding Hood,' my, how you've grown...
08/03/02
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