CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Mike Beranek Grungy, horrific but also terribly righteous and exquisitely funny to boot, this film blows away the cobwebs of so many boring genre flicks. It's far from subtle in its addressing of raw social issues like abuse, racism, youth & justice and in doing so through its characterisations and ripe dialogue risks feeling a little raw in a 21st century context, but it's from a rougher time. One forgets how tawdry the nineties really were, epitomised by the urban LA environ referenced here. In fact although on one level it's a neat moral fable with sex and violence kind of dumped in, it goes much further and deeper than first appearances with the wit of the writing and the skills of the two leads. Freeway ends up commenting on the moral environment of Red Riding Hood, Wolf if you like, in reality the hostile society the girl is persecuted by. I dare say it's a femminst movie albeit one that traces a delicate line, dancing with the sexploitation culture - it sets out to first court and so draw interest, and then to cheerfully crush. You soon much of the plot is really shocking and far from predicable, and the usual victim/assailant roles can't be relied upon. Light of foot and viscerally profound, this is in a superlative class - there's few movies that document, challenge, amuse and horrify all pretty much at the same time.

BA_Harrison I've yet to see Tiptoes, the film from which director Matthew Bright was fired (and, sadly, his last movie to date), but I've found everything else by the film-maker to be hugely entertaining thanks to a unique off-kilter style that appeals to my sense of the bizarre. Bright's distinctive approach is very much evident in his debut Freeway, an unforgettable spin on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood: the twisted plot is extremely exploitative and suitably lurid, the characters are grossly exaggerated, the direction is lively, and even though the fairytale is known to most, I'll wager you've never seen it told quite like this.Reese Witherspoon plays white trash juvenile delinquent Vanessa Lutz, who, after her streetwalker mother (a hilariously OTT turn by Amanda Plummer) and crack-head stepfather are arrested, escapes from her social worker to go looking for her grandmother up North. En route, Vanessa experiences car trouble, but is aided by good samaritan Bob Wolverton (Kiefer Sutherland), who offers her a lift. What Vanessa doesn't realise is that Bob is the serial killer who has been slicing up hookers on the I-5 interstate, and he plans to do very bad things to her (AFTER he's killed her, of course!); unfortunately for Bob, Vanessa is more than capable of protecting herself.What follows is a darkly humorous tale full of surprises, memorable characters, extreme violence and great performances, not just from Witherspoon and Sutherland, but also from an excellent supporting cast that includes Dan Hedaya, Brooke Shields and Brittany Murphy. The film also benefits from a quirky score by Danny Elfman that suits the demented material perfectly. Any film that features the star of 24 with a messed up face and a poop bag, and the star of Legally Blonde hiding a makeshift knife up her holiest of holies is easily worth a 9/10 from me.

zardoz-13 Reese Witherspoon made this riveting thriller before she became everybody's favorite sweetheart. The "Legally Blond" star plays a foul-mouthed, illiterate teenager named Vanessa Lutz who hitches a ride with an older man after her car breaks down on the freeway. He offers her a lift as far as Los Angeles and even takes her out to dinner. Later, he turns out to be a notorious California highway serial killer who has been making headlines. Kiefer Sutherland is thoroughly obnoxious as Bob Wolverton, a bespectacled boys counselor who gets more than he bargained for after he picks up Vanessa, cuts off her ponytail, and threatens to rape her corpse. She whips out a small, Spanish-made automatic pistol that her boyfriend, Chopper (Bokeem Woodbine) gave her moments before he died in a drive-by shooting. Vanessa lands in jail but she does not stick long before she breaks out and joins a group of Hispanic girls who pull tricks on the side. All Vanessa wants to do is go to Stockton, California, so she can live with her grandmother rather than wind up in another horrible foster home.The dialogue brims with profanity and the subject matter is very unsavory. Witherspoon gives a dynamic performance. If you think that Witherspoon is cast against the grain, wait until you see a grown-up Brooke Shields who plays the wife of the serial killer."Freeway" is an unforgettable dark comedy that doesn't pull any of its punches!

captaintrps This movie is horrible. I spent the majority of the time holding down the fast forward button on my remote.Reese W. does well despite the horrible film that this is. Keifer S. should just stay retired or go in hiding or wherever he was before this came out.Reese has to regret doing this film.Very predictable, with no plot or storyline that you're average movie buff couldn't come up with. I don't see where this has anything to do with the little red riding hood story. They forced that association onto this film.This is not worth watching at all. The weekend opening gross tells the story. Don't waste your time, or spoil your thoughts that Reese W. is fun to watch on film.