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Plot:
A bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center. After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin recounts to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council...( read more 
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MCT:August 17, 2008A good movie about heightened emotions, racial tension, the suspense of a missing child, and filled with enough heavy dialog to almost drive it into the ground and successfully make people forget about a socially relevant film with two fine performances.
Moore's performance was especially memorable as an emotionally distraught mother who has lost her child and can't wrap her thoughts around the events that happened to her. It is even more substantial in my mind after the overrated, inferior, but similar performance of Amy Ryan in 'Gone Baby Gone.' Moore knows how to carry the weight and mine the emotional levels a part like this requires. -
MCT:August 3, 2008Horrible movie! Two of my favorite actors Julianne Moore and Samuel L Jackson in the same movie, its gotta be good. What crack was the director smoking to let them act that way! Over the top in a bad way. The drama felt rushed and forced. Crying and yelling doesn't make drama just noise, but the director must have thought that somehow if everyone yelled and cried that the audience would get excited in some way. At least it was good for helping my friends and I develop and new term for anticipated but disappointing movies "Freedomland"
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MCT:June 22, 2008How bad can somebody act? I've liked Julianne Moore since Boogie Nights and she also has Magnolia on her credits. But her acting in this totally horrible film is so awful. How annoying can somebody be?
The acting in overall was one of the worst I've seen in a while. None of the actors can say that they did a good job.
The script was also a total underachievement. Some of the lamest monologues can be heard in this one.
I've never fastforwarded in a movie or skipped a chapter, cuz I think a movie is meant to be seen from start to finish, but I was so close to do it for the first time in my life.
If you're waiting for a boring 2 hours where annoyment is lurking just behind the dark corner... go for it. -
MCT:June 4, 2008
Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven) walks into an emergency room in a rough part of town with her hands covered in blood. She has just been carjacked and Detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction) is the investigator assigned to her case. When Council learns that her son was in the car and is now missing, the case explodes. The case intensifies once racial overtones are introduced. Martin reports that the carjacker is a black man. The predominantly black residents of the housing project where the crime occurred become more agitated as hours pass and the (mostly white) police presence increases. Just as in real life, a missing white kid is big news while missing children of color do not seem as important. For every Natalie Holloway or Elizabeth Smart that consumes cable news, there is a missing child of color whom you never hear about. This racial dichotomy is the most interesting aspect of the plot. Samuel L. Jackson can always be counted on to bring a forceful and riveting character to life. Jackson's performance alone raises the level of the material. Julianne Moore's near constant hysteria is hit-and-miss. Her hysteria certainly seems warranted by the situation, but her overlong monologues belie the fact that she is an actor swinging for the fences. The story has a "ripped from the headlines" feel and, indeed, strongly resembles an infamous case that made national headlines. In the film?s defense, a mystery is only as good as its ever unpeeling layers, and it?s here that Freedomland saves face with mixed results. In the final, overlong stretch, when the black community becomes more confrontational with a Gannon Police force ready for a rumble, Brenda begins to unravel the mystery for us all. There's a lot here to admire, and everyone who doesn't live it needs the refresher on American race relations that Freedomland offers, but it's hard to come away from a viewing with anything other than despair.
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MCT:May 14, 2008Good performances and would have been better if the ending wasn't so heavily telegraphed. It started off strong but I found myself loosing interest by the end.
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